Person

Dr dear Dr: What is the meaning of baptism for our times, in the moderne era?

The objective meaning to baptism can be found in a commentary on the rituals and rites themselves as advanced by any of the key catechists in this deanery, but from the point of view of outward social church order, and given modern movements for human rights and the like such as BLM and Antifa, there is another subjective meaning to baptism. Baptism confers personhood in the Church once received. The full deposit of the faith is also received and with it an illative or religious sense as to the content of the faith of Jesus and the Apostles. A baptised adult can always participate in theological debates with some confidence. Also when we say it confers personhood, this means that certain rights and privileges are received, and alongside sacraments and hierarchical communion and as long as a truly legitimate sanction does not intervene as imposed by authority and subject to due process. So personhood means that the individual becomes a subject of rights and also duties in the Church - enormous privileges are thus enjoyed. Personhood, the new concept.