From the Beginning to Baptism : Scientific and Sacred Stories of Water, Oil, and Fire (Zacchaeus Studies: New Testament)

Gibler, Linda/ Power, David N. (FRW)

Liturgical Press（2010/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 168 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780814656730
• DDC分類 265.1

Full Description

In From the Beginning to Baptism, Linda Gibler takes readers on a journey—from the depths of space and the beginning of time through sacred Scripture and church history— to discover the origins and creative power of water, oil, and fire. She traces the lives of those elemental entities through their cosmic history, to the point at which they are poured over the head and light the way of one being baptized. These elemental sources of all life are the substances through which new life in Christ begins in the sacrament of baptism. The journey through space and time, through the birth of the Universe and of life, and Gibler's reflections on this drama, help readers to enter into the "cosmocentric spirituality" at the heart of all things. No one who reads this book will ever again look at a drop of water, an olive, or a candle with the same eyes.

Linda Gibler, PhD, a Houston Dominican Sister, is currently associate academic dean at the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. She has several years' experience as a parish minister and is the science editor and a contributing author for the Collins Foundation Press, which hosts conferences on the significance of recent scientific revelations for faith, meaning, and the well-being of Earth and all her species.

Contents

Contents
Foreword
     by David N. Power, OMI   ix
Acknowledgments   xiv
Introduction   xv
     Historical Background   xvi
     Functional Cosmology   xix
     Contents   xxvii
Chapter One: Water   1
     The Natural History of Water   3
     The Sacramental Story of Water   11
     Water in the Baptismal Tradition   20
     Cosmocentric Sacramentality and Water   33
Chapter Two: Oil   37
     The Natural History of Olive Oil   38
     The Sacramental Story of Olive Oil   46
     Olive Oil in the Baptismal Tradition   57
     Cosmocentric Sacramentality and Olive Oil   69 
Chapter Three: Fire   75
     The Natural History of Fire   77
     The Sacramental Story of Fire   86
     Fire in the Baptismal Tradition   95
     Cosmocentric Sacramentality and Fire   105
Chapter Four: Cosmocentric Sacramentality   111
     Baptism   111
     Sacramentality   123
Bibliography   131
Subject Index   135
 Scriptural Index   137