A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible

Heart Knoweth its own Bitterness, The
Heart of Darkness
Hell Gate
Hills, The
Hireling, The
Ho, everyone that thirsteth
Ho, everyone that thirsteth
Holy Baptism (II)
Holy Innocents, The
Holy of Holies, The
Holy sonnets
Holy War, The
I am the Way
I do not believe that David killed Goliath
I went to heaven
I will lift up my eyes unto the hills
Ichabod
If it chance your eye offend you
In death Divided
In Salem dwelt a glorious king
In the beginning
In the beginning was the [3Word3]
In the Wilderness
In time of 'The Breaking of the Nations'
Incarnation and Passion, The
Iniquity of the fathers upon the children, The
Isaac's Marriage
Isle of Patmos, The
Jacob
Jacob
Jacob's Ladder
Jacob's Ladder, The
Jacob's Wives
Jehovah-Jireh
Jehu
Jephthah's Daughter
Jericho
Jerusalem the golden
Jesus
Jesus and his Mother
Jesus weeping
Jesus weeping
Job
Job I
John
Jonah
Jordan
Joseph
Joseph's Coat
Joshua at Schechem

A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible: Holy Baptism (II)

Genre

Poem

Definition

Baptism is the sacrament of initiation for Christians. The poem deals with Jesus' teaching that the way to the kingdom of heaven is more difficult than the way to destruction and Hell

Cultural References

Big ideas: Baptism

The immersion in or pouring over of water, in the name of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, to signify the washing away of away of sin. Baptism in Christian churches marks the acceptance of the baptised child or adult into the church.

Religious ceremony which symbolises receiving an inward spiritual grace.

Name originally given to disciples of Jesus by outsiders and gradually adopted by the Early Church.

The name given to the man believed by Christians to be the Son of God. Also given the title Christ, meaning 'anointed one' or Messiah. His life is recorded most fully in the Four Gospels.

Also called the Kingdom of God. The rule of God on earth and in heaven. Jesus taught that the Kingdom was both a present and a future reality.

Jesus describes hell as the place where Satan and his demons reside and the realm where unrepentant souls will go after the Last Judgement.

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