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Infant Baptism and Korean Methodism
Theology and Praxis, 2017No one is born as a Christian. One needs a mark to become part of a Christian community. The mark happens by sacraments that declare “what God is doing to bring us to faith.” Christian Baptism is a means to experience and understand the ways “God acts to initiate us into the community of the faithful.” There are variety of stages and sign-acts in ...
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Infant Baptism as a Family Rite of Passage
Pastoral Psychology, 1998Anthropological definitions of “rites of passage” and family system theory are employed to make the case that infant baptism is itself a rite of passage, not merely for the infant being baptized and its parents, but for its whole extended family. The pregnancy, birth, and “fourth trimester” following birth are analyzed as the significant context for ...
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