rebaptize

The great epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in us.

Smyth was a strong proponent of adult baptism and in 1609 went so far as to rebaptize himself and others.

He believed that somehow the crucible of that storm would cleanse him, even rebaptize him.

"Maybe we should rebaptize her the Little Tiny Mermaid," Tine suggests.

When heretics had been baptized in the Church, but had temporarily fallen away and wished to return in penitence, he did not rebaptize them.

Anabaptists and other Baptist groups do not consider that they rebaptize those who have been baptized as infants, since, in their view, infant baptism is without effect.

When the baptismal controversy arose, Cyprian wished to gain support from the Eastern churches against Pope Stephen for his own decision to rebaptize all heretics who returned to the Church.

The recent efforts to rebaptize French fries as "freedom fries" contrast with the World War I renaming of sauerkraut as "liberty cabbage" and dachshunds as "liberty dogs."

When the Ravens set up shop here in 1996 after abandoning Cleveland, the Ravens' owner, Art Modell, offered millions to rebaptize his new Bawlmore team the Colts, but Irsay refused.

Eastern Orthodox Churches occasionally practise what is seen by other Christians as "re-chrismation", in that they usually chrismate/confirm - and sometimes rebaptize - a convert, even one previously confirmed in other Churches.

She was the first of our people to become a baptized Christian, even though she performed the rite herself and assured the Spanish priest who tried to rebaptize her later, 'I've already been a Christian for seven years.'

"We rebaptize Catholics, we rebaptize Protestants and we rebaptize everyone else," said Michael Otterson, a spokesman for the the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

If the Islands of Solomon, as tradition has it, are on the antimeridian of the Isla de Hierro, and if we are at the correct latitude, sailing towards the west with a following wind, we should land at San Cristoval, or however we choose to rebaptize that ghastly island.