The Shape of Baptism: The Rite of Christian Initiation

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Liturgical Press, 1991 - 224 Seiten

After revealing the genesis of the Roman tradition of initiation, Kavanagh moves on to the tensions between traditional practice and the need for change. He stresses the Church's ongoing need to focus its efforts on its main concern - the initiation of new members.

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Ablutions and Baptisms in Judaism
6
Baptism in New Testament Churches
23
East Syria
40
Roman Adaptation of the Initiatory Pattern
54
CHAPTER THREE
81
CHAPTER FOUR
102
The Pastoral Roots of the Norm of Baptism
115
CHAPTER FIVE
126
Period of Postbaptismal Catechesis or Mystagogia
142
The Meaning and Knowledge of Baptism
158
Pastoral Cautions
180
Theological Observations
194
Index
216
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Seite 3 - This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood : and the three agree in one.
Seite xii - Liturgical tradition is not an "authority" or a locus theologicus; it is the ontological condition of theology, of the proper understanding of kerygma, of the Word of God, because it is in the Church, of which the leitourgia is the expression and the life, that the sources of theology are functioning as precisely "sources.
Seite 5 - Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Autoren-Profil (1991)

Aidan Kavanagh, OSB, (1926-2006) founded the doctoral program in liturgical studies at Notre Dame and served as professor of liturgics at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School. His texts on liturgy, rites of initiation, and liturgical theology made him a significant figure in American Catholic liturgiology. He is the author of Elements of Rite, On Liturgical Theology, and The Shape of Baptism published by Liturgical Press.

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