Description: A comprehensive examination of all the passages in the New Testament, together with key documents from the apostolic Fathers, which allude to baptism.
Description: This book challenges everyone who prepares the liturgy of infant Baptism to understand it is the action of the community that begets new believers. The author applies the standards of full, conscious, and active participation of the assembly; the word proclaimed and preached; the integration of music and ritual; and the abundant use of symbols, gestures, and movements to the Rite of Baptism of Children. Published by Liturgy Training Publications.
Author: Catherine Dooley::Angie Fagarason::Timothy Fitzgerald::Linda Gaupin::James Moudry::James Musemeci::Jane Marie Osterholt::David Philippart::Patricia Hawkins Vaillancourt::Mary Alice Roth::Deanne Tumpich
Publisher: Liturgy Training Publications
Dewey Decimal Number: 264.020812
Publication Date: 2007-04-12
Reading Level: 180
Description: Liturgy and catechesis should happen together. We've brought together liturgists, catechists, pastoral ministers, and academic experts to address how a parish might pastorally care for families who are bringing their children to the Church for Baptism. These essays discuss pre-education, training for catechists, timing of the rites, and the homily. But it doesn't stop there: mystagogy and follow-up are addressed, too. Published by Liturgy Training Publications.
Description: Baptism in the Theology of Martin Luther satisfies the need for a comprehensive survey, in English, of Martin Luther on baptism. The mature Luther was unstinting in praise of baptism. How does his vigorously expressed sacramental understanding sit with his earlier reformation insights? What is its impact upon justification, faith, conversion, the Church? The tensions and paradoxes are examined. Analysis of formal doctrine is complemented by a picture of baptism `in action', culled mainly from the Lectures on Genesis. Central is baptism's `present tense' -- its abiding force in the Christian's life, ever available for an encounter with God. His insistence that Christian progress is not onwards from baptism, but a repeated return to it emerges from the heart of Luther's thought. It is one of his most distinctive and important bequests to the Church.
