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Touching the Third (altar) Rail: Lessons Learned about Theological Discourse on Baptism and Eucharist in The Episcopal Church

Touching the Third (altar) Rail: Lessons Learned about Theological Discourse on Baptism and... 1166419 ATR0010.1177/00033286231166419Anglican Theological ReviewMacSwain research-article2023 Practicing Theology Article Anglican Theological Review 1 –17 Touching the third (altar) © The Author(s) 2023 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions rail: lessons learned about https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231166419 DOI: 10.1177/00033286231166419 journals.sagepub.com/home/atr theological discourse on baptism and Eucharist in The Episcopal Church Robert MacSwain The University of the South, USA If local circumstances present a pastoral need for a public invitation, it should not in any way be coercive, nor should it be in terms of an “open Communion” applied indiscriminately to anyone desiring to receive Communion. Yet, what figuration of longing or desire is at work in our newfound resistance to requiring baptism before reception? It is worth asking whether the rush to satisfy the longing of the unbaptized has less to do with Christian charity or good theology than with modernity’s abhorrence of longing. Some men and women, indeed, there are who can live on smiles and the word “yes” forever. But for others (indeed for most), this is too tepid and relaxed a moral climate. Passive happiness is slack and insipid, and soon grows mawkish and intolerable. Some austerity and wintry negativity, some roughness, danger, stringency, and effort, some “no! no!” must be mixed in, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

Touching the Third (altar) Rail: Lessons Learned about Theological Discourse on Baptism and Eucharist in The Episcopal Church

MacSwain, Robert
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 105 (2): 17 – May 1, 2023
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1166419 ATR0010.1177/00033286231166419Anglican Theological ReviewMacSwain research-article2023 Practicing Theology Article Anglican Theological Review 1 –17 Touching the third (altar) © The Author(s) 2023 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions rail: lessons learned about https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231166419 DOI: 10.1177/00033286231166419 journals.sagepub.com/home/atr theological discourse on baptism and Eucharist in The Episcopal Church Robert MacSwain The University of the South, USA If local circumstances present a pastoral need for a public invitation, it should not in any way be coercive, nor should it be in terms of an “open Communion” applied indiscriminately to anyone desiring to receive Communion. Yet, what figuration of longing or desire is at work in our newfound resistance to requiring baptism before reception? It is worth asking whether the rush to satisfy the longing of the unbaptized has less to do with Christian charity or good theology than with modernity’s abhorrence of longing. Some men and women, indeed, there are who can live on smiles and the word “yes” forever. But for others (indeed for most), this is too tepid and relaxed a moral climate. Passive happiness is slack and insipid, and soon grows mawkish and intolerable. Some austerity and wintry negativity, some roughness, danger, stringency, and effort, some “no! no!” must be mixed in,

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