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Browsing HTS Volume 59, Number 2 (2003) by Author "Groenewald, Jonanda"
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Groenewald, Jonanda
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
In the symbolical and social world of the first Christians, baptism functioned as a “cultural symbol”. Ensuing from Gerd Theissen’s (1999) work, A theory of primitive Christian religion, the paper explains the opinion ...