Stirring the Waters: Old Testament Baptismal Types in the Easter Liturgy

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Notes

Jean Danielou, The Bible and the Liturgy (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1966), 71.

Today's Missal: Holy Week–Pentecost, April–June 2011 (Portland, Ore.: OCP, 2010), 64. Note quotations referencing the Easter Vigil from the Roman Missal are cited from this text.

T. Thompson, ed., St. Ambrose on the Sacraments and on the Mysteries (London: SPCK, 1950), 128.

Christopher Hall, Worshiping with the Fathers (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2009), 31.

Tertullian, On Baptism (c. 200), trans. Ernest Evans, in Tertullian's Homily on Baptism (London: SPCK, 1964), quoted in James F. White, Documents of Christian Worship: Descriptive and Interpretive Sources (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1992), 149.

For a deep treatment of Old Testament typology see Jeremy Driscoll, Theology at the Eucharistic Table: Master Themes in Theological Tradition (Herefordshire, UK: Gracewing, 2005).

As quoted in Danielou, The Bible and the Liturgy, 74.

Taken from the Book of Common Prayer as quoted in Hoyt L. Hickman, Don E. Saliers, Laurence Hull Stookey, and James F. White, The New Handbook of the Christian Year (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992), 196.

Augustine, “On the Gospel of St. John,” Tractate 9.11.1, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, vol. 7, Augustine: Homilies on the Gospel of John, Homilies on the First Epistle of John, Soliloquies, ed. Philip Schaff (Peabody: Hendrickson, 2004), 67.

Justin Maryr, “Dialogue with Trypho,” cxxxviii, in Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr and Irenaeus, ed. Alexander Roberts (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1999), 268.

Hickman et al., Handbook for the Christian Year, 196.

St. Cyril of Jerusalem, quoted in Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: New Testament, ed. Thomas C. Oden, vol. 8, 1–2 Corinthians, ed. Gerald Bray (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1999), 90.

Danielou, The Bible and the Liturgy, 88–89.

Origen, Homilies on Joshua, in Old Testament IV: Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1–2 Samuel, ed. John R. Frank, in Ancient Commentary on Scripture, ed. Thomas C. Oden (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2005), 19.

Grebaut, Sacramentair Ethiopien, in Danielou, The Bible and the Liturgy, 99.

St. Jerome, Commentary on Matthew 1.3.13, in New Testament Ia: Matthew 1–13, ed. Manlio Simonetti, in Ancient Commentary on Scripture, ed. Thomas C. Oden (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2001), 51.

George E. Gingras, trans., Egeria: Diary of a Pilgrimage (New York: Newman Press, 1970), 123.

Manual of Discipline, quoted in G. R. Beasley-Murray, Baptism in the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1962), 14.

Ibid., 14.

Ibid., 43.

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James C. Dodge

James C. Dodge is director of advancement and instructor of church history and New Testament Greek at Canby Bible College in Canby, Oregon.