Karl Barth’s Doctrine of Baptism and Rejection of Infant Baptism (July 18, 2019)

Karl Barth's rejection of infant baptism (paedobaptism) in his doctrine of baptism (CD IV/4) is infamous. Barth was a professor and pastor within the Swiss Reformed church, and the Reformed tradition has strongly affirmed the baptism of infants from its earliest days (c.f John Calvin's Institutes 4.16), and had persecuted […]

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Karl Barth on the Disorder of Re-Baptism (November 29, 2017)

Karl Barth opposed infant baptism in the final fragment of the Church Dogmatics IV/4 but he also opposed re-baptism! Barth believed that infant baptism (or paedobaptism) was a disorder that the church needed to correct by delaying baptism until a person desired to be baptized and gave their consent to it […]

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Karl Barth was Infant Baptized and Refused to be Rebaptized (June 2, 2014)

Update: An revised version of this article is available: Karl Barth on the Disorder of Rebaptism Karl Barth with his first great grandchild, Olivier Schopfer, in 1962. In the following letter, Karl Barth says that he was baptized as an infant, and that he refused to be rebaptized for 79 years, and […]

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