of a rite of passage: separation, transition, and incorporation.74 Gennep’s classification of baptism rested largely on how the sacrament had developed in the ancient and medieval church, but Wayne Meeks has made the same case for baptism in the first century.75 The baptismal language of Paul and the Pauline communities invariably conveys departure or separation from a previous status and incorporation or integration into a new condition: buried into death/raised to newness of life (Rom 6:4; Col