Expressions of Religious Identity

What you will learn:

• Baptism: the significance of infant baptism in Christianity with particular reference to the Catholic and Baptist traditions; arguments in favour of and against infant baptism.
• Holy Communion: differing practices associated with Holy Communion, and differing understandings of Holy Communion and its importance, in the Catholic and Baptist Churches; different Christian understandings of the significance of Jesus’ actions at the last supper, Luke 22: 17-20.
• The mission of the Church: developments in Christian ideas of ‘mission’ from the early 20th century to today.