Word: baptism
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...study of the most vital ideas found in modern secular thought. Princeton's Dr. Hugh Kerr uses jazz recordings and slides of modern art in his classroom discussions of religious symbolism. "There is no sense in showing a seminarian how to hold a baby for baptism-he'll learn that later," says Dean John Bowen Coburn of Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass...
...Well, baptism, for example. The ceremony now has so many symbolic actions that are hardly understood. Matrimony, which has such a meager ceremony in the Roman rite. Penance. English, rather than Latin, would help in all this, of course...
...Pentecostal minister preaches a simple theology: a fundamentalist belief in the Bible and in salvation through repentance and prayer; a fervent, emotional attachment to baptism of the Holy Spirit -the belief that the worshiper, like the apostles, can be instilled with a holiness that will meet the test of the Second Coming. Most of all, notes Henry P. Van Dusen, president of New York's Union Theological Seminary, the Pentecostals maintain "a life-commanding, life-transforming, seven-days-a-week devotion, however limited in outlook, to a living Lord of all life...
...Epistle and Gospel, for instance. At the request of their priests, some bishops will push for a drastic shortening of the breviary, the collections of psalms, verses and readings that ordained clerics must recite every day. Missionaries may get more authority to incorporate native customs and religious practices into baptism, marriage and funeral rites...
...Private Jones's long, hard-written effort to be the Marcel Proust of C-for-Charlie Company's baptism of fire is not without virtues. His narrative of the company's action switches focus from soldier to soldier, skillfully managing to re-create a steadily developing, complex assault on a pair of Japanese-held hills. Without seeming to interrupt, it examines each individual's reactions to his own private world of pride and fear. But much of what Jones tells of the men-their need to prove their manhood, the revival meeting frenzy that carries them...