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• W235733731 abstract "When Christians of different traditions talk about what they share in faith and practice, at the top of the list would be the universal sacrament of baptism in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. In the light of this, there has emerged a growing imperative that the various churches affirm the mutual recognition of baptism on the basis of the shared belief that there is Lord, one faith, one baptism. Given its foundational significance, why is it that baptismal practice seems often to trivialize this fundamental rite of Christian incorporation? In the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, the rite for Holy Baptism embodies a recovered sense of the significant role which baptism plays in the Christian life. But if in our common pastoral practice that significance is undermined, our sense of the magnitude of this sacramental act will be undermined as well. In November of 2007, Thomas Best gave an address at a celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the document Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry [BEM). l At the time of this celebration, Thomas Best was the Director of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches in Geneva. While reflecting on his work with die Faidi and Order Commission, Best commented diat die ecumenical influence of the document had been unprecedented: during the quarter-century since its publication, 180,000 copies of BEM had been printed in English, and die text had been translated into forty languages. I want to lift up two points from Best's address. First, he noted that the document was a sign that ecumenica] dialogue among the various churches had rnoved into a new phase. He said: Thus after centuries of division, the decades of simply comparing one another's positions, the churches were finally ready for a deeper commitment for the search for unity - and a much more active engagement in the production of ecumenical texts. This opened up the convergence method, which meant that the focus was no longer on the distinctive positions of the particular churches, hut on what they might say together about the nature and mission of the church.2 And so we see BEM as a document which shows the movement of churches beyond a comparative or even adversarial model of ecumenical engagement to one in which the various churches were exploring the important areas of agreement which each tradition had preserved. The second point in Best's address that I want to lift up is an immediate consequence of the first. When Christians talk about what they share in faith and practice, at the top of the list would be the universal practice of sacramental initiation, baptism with water in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. This has led to a growing imperative that the various churches affimi the mutual recognition of baptism in each of our traditions on the basis of the shared belief that there is Lord, one faith, one baptism. So it is that when a person is baptized in any of our various churches, that person is made a member of the body of Christ and consequently a member of the one church. This must be affirmed in spite of the continuing divisions between Christians of various traditions. These baptized persons will live out their lives as members of a particular communion, but through baptism they share a unity which reaches beyond our institutional divisions. It is an affirmation of the unity that we hope ultimately will be fulfilled in the visible church and for which we wait upon God. If then baptism has die significance that is ascribed to it by all Christian liturgical traditions, if it is the embodiment of a fundamental unity that is not destroyed by our denominational barriers, if what unites us in Christ is more fundamental than the issues (albeit often important issues) that divide us, why is it that in the sacramental practice of our churches, Christian initiation seems all too often to take an insignificant place in the lived experience of many Christians? …" @default.
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• W235733731 title "Baptism as the Model for a Sacramental Aesthetic" @default.
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