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Baptism in the Thought of St Paul. By RUDOLF SCHNACKENBURG. xii, 228, OxPp. ford, Basil Blackwell, 1964, 35s. NOTES A N D C O M M E N T S (1) They are not derived from reflection on the symbolism of the liturgical act of baptism itself. Baptism does not look like a spiritual circumcision; the connexion of âputting on Christâ with the clothing of initiates in the garb of gods of mystery-religions is highly questionable; and the notion that the descent into the water of baptism represents death, and the ascent from it represents resurrection is a later embroidery of St Paulâs thought (p. 55). âThe liturgical act of baptism, with its ritual symbolic content, does not give Paul any kind of impulse for his formulations of the doctrine of baptismâ (p. 78, cf. pp. 58-9). (2) St Paulâs formulations are not derived from the mystery-religions. The theories of 0. Case1 and V. Warnach are examined and rejected (p. 147): St Paul âjudged the pagan sacrificial system as the worship of demons (1 Cor 10:20f.) and made a clean separation between the Christian cult and all veneration of pagan âgods and lordsâ (1 Cor 85f.). It is,
The Heythrop Journal – Wiley
Published: Jan 1, 1966
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