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Contributors to this dictionary have been selected from all over the English-speaking world, and it is to the concerns of the English-speaking churches that these essays are primarily addressed. The dictionary is structured as a theological and pastoral resource, covering a wide range of activities that are constitutive of a sacramental Church. The entries include the strictly theological, the...
The central symbols of the baptismal rite: water, oil, and touching, are natural symbols which are found in initiatory rites in other religions. The way they are understood in Christian baptism, however, while including their natural and cultural meaning, is more immediately derived from their role in salvation history and scriptural imagery. Thus, while water as natural symbol can signify birth, or destruction, or sustenance of life, the waters of baptism are understood through the experience of
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