OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT

A study of the Orthodox understanding of
Christian initiation — by one of America’s leading Orthodox theologians. Fr Schmemann penetrates the Church’s rites and rubrics, so often dismissed as out of date or merely ‘quaint’, to reveal their inner content: a message of man’s entrance into new life, of his entrance into the Church, of his entrance into the Kingdom. The result is a powerful statement of what Baptism should mean in our lives.