Kids

Dave Monroe monroe at mpm.edu
Sun Jun 25 09:07:00 CDT 2000


Just for the record, (we) Catholics (practicing, but never seeming to get any
better at it ...) also baptize infants--just doesn't seem unusual to me, is
all ...

Terrance wrote:

> Well, we have a lot on the stove here, but
> http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/25/reviews/000625.25colest.html
>
> Also, I recommended Kozol's latest, but his 'Savage
> Inequalities: Children in American Schools' is his best
> work, be careful, it's a heavy corner
> >
> > This all ties in with Terrance's "bottom line" post about the difference
> > between the Catholic cycle of sin, repentance, and forgiveness and the
> > Protestant's gradual and more of less continuous rising toward human
> > perfection. Was Augustine vs the Pelagians a dress rehersal for the
> > Reformation and for Gravity's Rainbow. Very possibly.
> >
> > Important tension in GR between the two poles.
>
> Infant Baptism again? hmmmmm




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