Baptism and the process of Christian initiation.

The Ecumenical Review | January 1, 2002| | Copyright

1. Common baptism or common initiation?

The affirmation that all Christian people share a "common baptism" has become an accepted departure point in ecumenical conversations and documents. A recent Faith and Order paper on baptism (emerging from the consultation held at Faverges, France, in 1997) declares, for example, that: 

 
   Through our common baptism we are all brought into Christ, and this forms 
   the basis of our ecumenical engagement with each other: because Christ has 
   claimed us, we have no right to reject one another ... Since we as 
   ...

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