Alternative Futures for Worship Volume 2: Baptism and ConfirmationLiturgical Press, 1987 - 192 pages These volumes provide creative and provocative analysis of each of the Church's seven sacraments. |
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Infant Baptism Reconsidered | 51 |
CONTENTS | 7 |
Mark Searle 15 | 15 |
Infant Baptism in the Light of the Human Sciences | 55 |
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affection Anabaptists Aquinas autonomy baby baptized become beliefs Bernard Lonergan birth blessing candidate catechumenate Catholic celebration chil child childhood Chris Christ Christian initiation Church commitment communion context conversion culture death dialectic divine doctrine dren ecclesial emotional Erik Erikson Eucharist event example experience faith family's gift God's godparents grace growth holding environment hospitable important individual infant baptism infant initiation interaction Jean Piaget Jesus liturgy live Lord means ment mother newly born nurture one's ongoing original sin parents parish participants pastoral patterns person perspective prayer pregnancy Presider principles process of initiation psychology question RCIA relationship religious responsibility Rite of Enrollment rites of initiation ritual role sacra sacramental initiation Second Vatican Council sense shared social sciences stages Stanley Hauerwas suggest symbolic systems theory tension theology Thompson tian tion tism tradition trust understanding values Victor Turner W. H. Auden world view worship York
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Page 189 - Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981), pp. 74, 102. 22. EP Thompson, The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays (London: Merlin Press, 1978). 23. Ian Hacking, "The Archaeology of Foucault," New York Review of Books, 28 (May 14, 1981), p.
Page 23 - The baptism of children is also unwise, for it involves a double jeopardy: jeopardy for the baptized themselves, if they grow up unfaithful to their baptism, and jeopardy for their sponsors, who may be prevented by death from fulfilling their commitment or may be thwarted by the child growing up with "an evil disposition." It is far wiser, Tertullian argues, to "let them be made Christians when they have become competent to know Christ.