Baptisms recognized.Magdeburg, Germany (ENI)--Eleven German denominations-including Protestant, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Anglican churches--have formally recognized each other's baptism baptism [Gr., =dipping], in most Christian churches a sacrament. It is a rite of purification by water, a ceremony invoking the grace of God to regenerate the person, free him or her from sin, and make that person a part of the church. , at an ecumenical ceremony here. Baptism is a "powerful bond of Christian unity," said Bishop Wolfgang Huber Wolfgang Huber (August 12, 1942) is the current bishop of Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. Bishop Dr. Wolfgang Huber has been Chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) since 2003 and succeeded Manfred Kock. of the Evangelical Church in Germany
Evangelical Church in Germany (German Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, abbreviated as EKD , at the recent service. Bishop Huber noted the "immense symbolism Symbolism In art, a loosely organized movement that flourished in the 1880s and '90s and was closely related to the Symbolist movement in literature. In reaction against both Realism and Impressionism, Symbolist painters stressed art's subjective, symbolic, and decorative " of celebrating the service at Magdeburg cathedral, which has a 1,000-year-old baptismal font, thought to be the oldest being used in Germany. "We are gathered round a font at which baptism has been celebrated in the name of the triune God for more than a millennium," said Bishop Huber. "This font represented the one baptism, to which we bear witness today, even before the division between Eastern and Western Christianity Western Christianity is a term used to cover the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church and Protestantism, which share common attributes that can be traced back to their medieval Catholic heritage. The term is used by contrast to Eastern Christianity. [in 1054] and long before the beginning of the Reformation." In Germany this is the first formal agreement on baptism at a national level. |
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