Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!aplcen!haven!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: lohr@wsqtb8.crd.ge.com (P. J. Lohr) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Request for info on Baptism preparation and Sacrement of Baptism Message-ID: Date: 27 Oct 89 07:08:30 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 31 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Request for info on Baptism preparation and Sacrement of Baptism My wife and I have been asked to start a Baptism preparation "program" for parents who wish to baptize their infants in the Catholic faith. The main goal of the program (believe it or not :-) is to get the parents to re-evaluate their faith and make a renewed commitment to their faith and church community. The secondary goal is to inform the parents about the sacrement and ceremony of baptism itself. We seem to be breaking new gound here since all the material we've seen to date deals only with the secondary goal. If anyone has any suggestions or pointers to material please let me know. We are very ecumenical so don't feel restricted to suggesting material from Catholic publishers. Secondly, before I teach anything under the authority of the Catholic church I feel that I must fully understand what the Catholic church _truely_ teaches (as opposed to popular opinion of what it teaches, or what medival theologians may have thought). I need to verify that these teaching are consistent with scripture. (Perhaps "not inconsistent" is a better way to put it, since scripture refers to baptism in a variety of different ways, and doesn't treat baptism into the Christian church very extensively.) If you feel you are well versed on this topic and would like to carry on an off-net discussion to help me out let me know. Phil Lohr lohr@crd.ge.com uunet!crd.ge.com!lohr