“A presentation of conversion as a key expressive element in the way Christianity itself was perceived and communicated at any one time, place, and culture.”
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Tag: catechesis
Brief Book Review: Death by Baptism
Honeycutt confronts head-on truncated understandings of baptism as “fire insurance” against eternity in hell or as supernatural guarantee against misfortune.
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Brief Book Review: Turn to the Lord
“DeLorenzo asks us to take sacramental preparation out of the classroom and into more intimate and personal faith formation groups.”
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Doubt and Bodies
If religion, or faith, is only about belief, then when belief wavers or struggles, one simply no longer has it. In this view, faith isn’t in your bones, it’s merely in your thoughts about the world, or in your morals.
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Responding to a Journalist’s Inquiry About Hell
How to respond to the question of hell in a relatively succinct manner (as desired in journalism) to a reporter (and her religiously pluralistic readership), whose even basic knowledge of Christianity I could not presume?
Read moreTwo Models of the RCIA
It occurs to me that there are two dominant models according to which the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is understood and practiced. In one, the RCIA is primarily a process of catechesis ordered toward the intellectual and/or spiritual development of the participants; in the other, it is primarily a series of rites leading to Baptism.
Read moreCollect for the Memorial of St. Ambrose: Translation Issues
While celebrating Mass yesterday for the memorial of St. Ambrose, I was struck by the new English translation of the collect.
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