Lad - I would just like to say, regarding differences on this issue as compared to BoD. On BoD, I and many others who recognize the concept do because we believe that it is taught Magisterially in, for example, the Council of Trent and its Catechism. That position does not rely upon theologians, but official Church teaching. So, for example, BoD is in the Catechism of Trent, while Limbo for infants - no matter how you understand it, isn't. If it is, someone please correct me, because I'd like to know if I'm inaccurate there.
As I have argued repeatedly, though BoD is not precisely defined in its parameters, there is a "core concept," i.e. the possibility of justification in voto, that is taught Magisterially.
I've already said that Limbo isn't defined, but the condemnation of Limbo has been condemned, so one cannot reject Limbo by claiming that it contradicts Church teaching.
There is no "core concept" of justification
in voto anywhere in the Magisterium. Of all the individuals who promote the notion of BoD, the greatest common denominator is that the Sacrament of Baptism isn't necessary for justification, which is heretical.
In the Church Fathers, apart from the retracted youthful speculation of St. Augustine, the only other notion that comes up is St. Ambrose's hope that Justinian could, like the martyrs, experience a state of being "washed but not crowned". Crowning refers to entry into the Kingom of Heaven. Then you had the dogmatic teaching of Pope St. Sulpicius holding that each and everyone who desires Baptism would lose the Kingdom without the actual reception of the Sacrament.
So the closest thing is some kind of washing away of the
poena due to sin as a result of either martyrdom or the right dispositions for BoD.
Then you have the pre-scholastics next to mention the subject, with some including St. Thomas going with what was wrongly thought to be the "authority of Augsutine and Ambrose". You had Pope Innocent III opining in favor of it in a letter to a bishop. Then after that you have the alleged teaching of Trent about BoD, which I dispute.
That's really all there is to BoD, and there is clearly no Tradition to BoD, and it's clear that BoD was not revealed. It's nothing but pure speculation, based on no evidence whatsoever.