Baptism as passport to Christian journey.(Cover Story)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: December 13, 1996| Author: Gibeau, Dawn | Copyright information

Maxwell Johnson described baptism as the beginning of a spiritual journey at a conference on spirituality at the Collegeville Pastoral Institute. He believes that Christians should renew baptismal spirituality by acknowledging its ties to confirmation.

The sacrament of baptism occupies a central place throughout the spiritual journey, contends the Rev. Maxwell Johnson, an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America minister and assistant professor of liturgy in the St. John's Universi...

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