"Of Water and the Spirit" - Theological perspectives of the Baptism Sacrament
Journal Title: TEOLOGIA - Year 2011, Vol 48, Issue 3
Abstract
St. Nicholas of Cabasila, 14th century, identifi es the existence of the Church with The Holy Mysteries. The Church is determined, is revealed and becomes reality through the Holy Mysteries, and especially through the Holy Eucharist. Each Mystery brings about the possibility of man’s integration into the ecclesiastic Body, into the divine-human reality of the Church, and the transformation of the natural human existence into an existence above its boundaries. The mystery of mysteries in this restoration process, and the beginning and the condition of all the other mysteries, is the Holy Baptism. St. Basil the Great speaks about the two great aims of the Baptism: a) to destroy “the body of the sin so that it could no longer create death” and, b) the Baptised to live in the Holy Spirit”. Baptism moves the whole spiritual evolution of the Christian towards salvation. The patristic theology insists upon the revival of Baptism. Man becomes a new creature in Christ and thus, the Baptism gets its Christocentric character. Baptism has a direct relation with the Church, too.
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Gheorghios Metallinos
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