Baptism or Christening?

[TennMark38107]

Where did the term “christening” come from? Is it a Protestant term? My daugher is getting baptized next week but the protestants in my family keep saying “christened”

Can someone shed some light on this for me? Thanks

 

[DJgang]

Are your relatives Methodist by chance? Or Baptists even?

The reason I ask, we have some Methodist family members and they call it Christening, my mom, who is Bapist calls it Christening…(I had to correct her )…

But as far as I know, Presbyterians, Episcopalians and Lutherans call it Baptism…

I don’t know where the term came from, so I’m as interested in this information as much as you are!

 

[1ke]

Christen is a synonym for baptize. It is Old English meaning “to make Christian” and is derived from the anointing with chrism and/or the term Chrisitan, Christos, etc.

 

[lak611]

From Webster’s dictionary, the terms are synonomous. "Main Entry: chris·ten·ing
Function: noun
: the ceremony of baptizing and naming a child "
m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary