Dimensions of Baptism Biblical and Theological Studies

MEMORIAL DIMENSIONS OF BAPTISM Philip E. Thompson Introduction In the 1968 Christmas holiday quiet of the Stanford University ...

THOMPSON Memorial Dimensions of Baptism 305 benefits of temporal vice: corrupt your soul and save it too! '^3 The wounded soteri ...

306 Dimensions of Baptism to the 'one baptism' varies from one ecclesial location to the next.^6 Thus, I write within a particul ...

THOMPSON Memorial Dimensions of Baptism 307 Hymns celebrating the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus frequently either make ...

308 Dimensions of Baptism McClendon discusses baptism as one of the 'remembering signs' of Chris- tian faith.^17 That baptism ha ...

THOMPSON Memorial Dimensions of Baptism 309 We find here memory rising through a complex of ritual and recital. It is quite appa ...

310 Dimensions of Baptism tered on the present banks, his presence sought in the present flood, and the time of his action thus ...

THOMPSON Memorial Dimensions of Baptism 311 Christ, the work of Christ becomes yet again actualized in and for the community. It ...

312 Dimensions of Baptism Narrative is a crucial dimension of memory, necessary for understand- ing the relation of individual t ...

THOMPSON Memorial Dimensions of Baptism 313 A fourth dimension of memory forms a necessary complement to nar- rative: the ritual ...

314 Dimensions of Baptism ticular groups of Baptists 'repaired hither for the sake of fulfilling all right- eousness'. Each gath ...

THOMPSON Memorial Dimensions of Baptism 315 will find and know Christ in their midst was answered through the one baptized him/h ...

316 Dimensions of Baptism centered in Christ. It is as such truly the beginning of life in Christ. Baptists of an earlier time s ...

THOMPSON Memorial Dimensions of Baptism 317 Christian memory is, finally, apneumatological reality.^54 Edward Schille- beeckx no ...

318 Dimensions of Baptism Thus may thy mighty Spirit draw All here to love and keep his law...^59 All ye that love Immanuel's na ...

THOMPSON Memorial Dimensions of Baptism 319 In tandem with recognition of memory as fundamental to Christian life, a growing num ...

320 Dimensions of Baptism while centered on eucharistic practice and theology, reveals an under- standing of baptism that has be ...

THOMPSON Memorial Dimensions of Baptism 321 Wolterstorff, drawing upon ritual theory, lists one possible theory of how memory fu ...

322 Dimensions of Baptism ens the integrity of Christian identity. Identity and consciousness are not simply lost, but transform ...

THOMPSON Memorial Dimensions of Baptism 323 much Christian anamnesis as their own paramnesia. Even though a type of baptismal in ...