baptizand

plural baptizands · alternative baptisand

1. A person about to submit to baptism.

   Baptism is such a transaction, where the baptisand formally gives himself into the hands of a new Master.

   1970, James D. G. Dunn, Baptism in the Holy Spirit: A Re-examination of the New Testament Teaching on the Gift of the Spirit in Relation to Pentecostalism Today, Naperville, Illinois: Alec R. Allenson, →ISBN, retrieved 26 Jan 2022, page 118

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   Let the baptizands stand naked in the water. A deacon should step down in like manner into the water with the baptizand […] and say, “Dost thou believe in God the Father almighty?” and the baptizand should reply, “I believe”.

   1950, J. N. D. Kelly, translating the Latin translation of Testamentum Domini by I. E. Rahmani, quoted in Early Christian Creeds, London: Longmans, Green and Co., retrieved 26 January 2022, page 35

   Is it the believer (baptisand) or a third party (minister of baptism) who neither should nor can be certain of the faith?

   1994, Jonathan D. Trigg, Baptism in the Theology of Martin Luther, Leiden, Netherlands: E.J. Brill, →ISBN, retrieved 26 Jan 2022, page 88

   With the change to an administered immersion, the baptisms of John and Christians were likely still the ducking of the head of the standing baptizand into the water […]"

   2009, Everett Ferguson, Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, →ISBN, retrieved 26 Jan 2022, page 36

2. A person who has been baptized.