Reviews
The author, a professor at Marquette University, is attentive to the various confessional points of view on baptism and presents them in a way that allows not only comparison but also the emergence of new insights. In such a way, all Christians can, with mutual understanding and respect, progress along the sometimes difficult path toward a shared understanding of Nicene faith: `I acknowledge one baptism.'
Concilium
I highly recommend this book for all professors and students of the initiation rites, and any parish personnel dealing with candidates for full communion in the church who would like to have a better grasp of the beliefs of those seeking full communion.
Liturgical Ministry
. . . an excellent source for an overview of where all of the major traditions align themselves on baptism.
Catholic Studies
No future ecumenical conversation can afford to neglect Susan Wood's important contribution. She has certainly done what she hoped to do. She has produced a significant contribution on the path to Christian unity.
The Living Church
A fine treatment of baptism, of interest to theologians systematic, ecumenical, and liturgical alike.
Theological Studies
The author has listened carefully to various points of view about baptism, and has presented these in a way that permits not just comparison but the emergence of new insights. She has gone far in answering her own question, `What does baptism do?' Baptism offers a foretaste of eschatological glory. Wood shows that Christians can walk the sometimes tortuous path to that goal with mutual respect and tangible hope.
Worship
One Baptism delivers a vast, rich spectrum of meaning that is brought to baptism by the many Christian churches and communions. . . . [This] is a fascinating, comprehensive study that will eventually bring us closer to the unity we profess in sharing `one baptism'. The book also contains four helpful indices: subjects, documents, proper names, and Scripture citations.
Pastoral Music
Susan K. Wood's ecumenical study of our 'one Baptism' merits wide attention from systematic, historical, and liturgical theologians. Baptism and Eschatology, Baptism and Justification, Baptism and Church are just some of the topics that this liturgically grounded and readable study treats with clarity and precision. A veteran of Roman Catholic-Lutheran dialogues, Susan Wood does here what many of us have been calling on theologians to do for some time, i.e., to root soteriology and ecclesiology in God's gracious gift of new life in water and the Holy Spirit in the font of grace where all new life begins so that a baptismal ecclesiology might be generated.
Maxwell E. Johnson, University of Notre Dame
One Baptism: Ecumenical Dimensions of the Doctrine of Baptism represents a mature study of the historical, ecclesiological, sacramental, and doctrinal dimensions of Baptism as they have been stated over the Centuries by the Churches. Sr. Susan Wood has helped us along the path to full visible unity by offering a rigorous and careful study of the important questions concerning the meaning of Baptism as the foundation of the unity of the Church.
James F. Puglisi, SA, Director, Centro Pro Unione, Rome, Professor of Sacraments, Ecclesiology and Ecumenism, Pont. Athenaeum S. Anselmo, and Pont. University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome
An exciting new generation of books on baptism is emerging, and Susan Wood's ranks right up among the best of them. Engaging her knowledge of ecclesiology, history, and contemporary ecumenical dialogue Wood has achieved in the order of sacramental theology what reflective pastoral practice of the rites of baptism should likewise entail: an unfolding of insights into the event of grace as salvation for people and strengthening of the church. I am happily adopting One Baptism for my course in Christian initiation.
Bruce T. Morrill, SJ, Boston College
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