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Understanding the Theology of the Baptistery

April 23, 2014 by Dr. Steven Schloeder, AIA

We might start by understanding that the holy water stoup receives its symbolic imagery from the baptismal font, but the font receives its imagery from creation itself. When we enter a Church, we reach for the holy water stoup to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Constantine, Counter-Reformation, disciplina arcani, Extraordinary Form of Baptism, Genesis account of creation and the Garden, holy water, neophyte, Paschal Triduum, Pool of Siloam, Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions, San Giovanni at the Lateran Palace, St. Ambrose, St. Charles Borromeo, St. Justin Martyr, Sulis Minerva, Tertullian, the ancient house-church at Dura Europos, Vatican II

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