Term

Immersion

A mode of baptism where a person is put completely under water and brought back up.

Filed underNew Testament StudiesEcclesiology

Definition

The mode of baptism in the NT in which the person is put completely under the water and then brought back up again.

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Sources

  1. 1.Wayne A. Grudem Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine. 2nd ed.. (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, 2020). 49AOriginal citation: Grudem, Wayne A. Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, 2020, 49A.

Last revised August 14, 2026