Author: Fr. John Cox

Fr. John is a husband, father of 4, graduate of St. Vladimir's Seminary, and priest at Dormition of the Theotokos Orthodox Church in Norfolk, Virginia.

Can You Baptize Without Baptism? Review: The Ecclesiological Renovation of Vatican II by Fr. Peter Heers

· Fr. John Cox
Is it possible to receive an unbaptized person into the Orthodox Church without baptizing him? What would it mean to do such a thing? You might not expect a book about the Second Vatican Council to elicit such questions from Orthodox sacramental theology but Fr. Peter Heers’s 2015 doctoral thesis, published with the title The Ecclesiological Renovation of Vatican II (ERV2), does…