Press Announcement
Land University Press enters the American and English publishing market by publishing its first book entirely in English, entitled The infant baptism: the case for a pandemic origin.
The Land Group, which also aims to reach the foreign market with quality titles, has reached an important milestone.
About the publication
The author proposes “to connect the emergence of infant baptism with the ground-shaking experience of the Antonine Plague. The so-called Antonine Plague, which was probably smallpox, devastated large swaths of the Roman Empire in the late 160s. Arduini cites Christian writers who first mention the baptism of babies to argue that the documented appearance of this new religious practice coincides with, or rather follows, the Antonine Plague. The rationale behind infant baptism was simple: to guarantee salvation for the babies before they could be ripped from their parents’ arms by the merciless disease”.
www.biblicalarchaeology.org[1]
[1] www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/new-testament/the-pandemic-roots-of-infant-baptism/
About the author
Francesco Arduini holds a bachelor’s degree in Biblical Studies with major in History of Christianity, and an Executive Master’s degree in Business Administration. He is member of the Italian Society of History of Religions (SISR)
