The Continuity of Christian Thought
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For unless the divine image is re- placed, it is impossible, in the nature of the case, that any one should be saved. Man, without baptism, is only a highly gifted animal, lacking the one essential quality which makes him capable of salvation, — of the divine communion here, and of the divine presence hereafter. Hence, for heathens and for unbaptized children, there is no hope in the world to come of ever seeing God. Their punishment may be a thing of de- grees, for those who have not actually ...sinned it may hardly be punishment at all, — Augustine was willing to be lenient where his theory did not suffer, — but it will be endless, and the essence of their loss consists in this, that they can never to all eternity come to the knowledge of God, in which consists supernatural bless- edness. The result of this belief was to make general the practice of infant baptism, which was not before Augustine's time the universal custom.^ Augustine's doctrine concerning original sin and its remission by baptism, as well as his views upon pre- destination, were regarded at the time as innovations, as well as a dangerous disturbance of the faith of the church.
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For unless the divine image is re- placed, it is impossible, in the nature of the case, that any one should be saved. Man, without baptism, is only a highly gifted animal, lacking the one essential quality which makes him capable of salvation, — of the divine communion here, and of the divine presence hereafter. Hence, for heathens and for unbaptized children, there is no hope in the world to come of ever seeing God. Their punishment may be a thing of de- grees, for those who have not actually ...sinned it may hardly be punishment at all, — Augustine was willing to be lenient where his theory did not suffer, — but it will be endless, and the essence of their loss consists in this, that they can never to all eternity come to the knowledge of God, in which consists supernatural bless- edness. The result of this belief was to make general the practice of infant baptism, which was not before Augustine's time the universal custom.^ Augustine's doctrine concerning original sin and its remission by baptism, as well as his views upon pre- destination, were regarded at the time as innovations, as well as a dangerous disturbance of the faith of the church.
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