Simply click on a question and the answer will appear below it. The Liturgical Press, 1991. This 36-minute video is designed to help churches reflect on the historical and liturgical meaning of baptism. This is accomplished through looking at particular baptismal fonts through the ages as a means of showing how the font reflected particular understandings of baptism. There is an underlying purpose of helping those responsible for designing or renovating worship space consider the baptismal font in new ways.
Baptism is seen as a central defining sacrament of the church.
The primary visual symbol of baptism is water abundant water. The video creator feels that most fonts in today s churches are bird baths rather than pools of abundant water that allow people to be visibly reminded of the destructive and creative powers of water that give baptism so much meaning. The author calls for fonts that marry water and baptism in powerful, visual ways. The author understands life in the water to be a metaphor for the Christian life. We are baptized into Christ s death and Christ s resurrection and water, with its creator and destructive possibilities, is symbolic of that death and resurrection.