All 28 Uses of
baptism
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- He had envisioned a baptism.†
Chpt 1
- There is a little stream that runs by the village, with small pools where people wash clothes and get water for drinking, but it isn't deep or wide enough for anything near the proper baptismal effect.†
Chpt 1
- Afterwards, instead of the baptism, Father lured people down as near as he could get them to the river by means of the age-old method of a church supper.†
Chpt 1
- He was scouting out baptismal sites.†
Chpt 1
- But in the end he got around to emphasizing baptism, as always.†
Chpt 1
- Our Father could not seem to accept what seemed clear enough even to a child: when he showered the idea of baptism—batiza—on people here, it shrunk them away like water on a witch.†
Chpt 1
- His first sermon in August waxed great and long on the subject of baptism.†
Chpt 1
- My own baptism, and every one I have witnessed so far, took place in something like a large bathtub or small swimming pool in the Baptist Church.
Chpt 1 *baptism = a Christian ceremony signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth
- He couldn't begin to comprehend, now, how far off the track he was with his baptismal fixation.†
Chpt 2
- During the second interview, Nathan even retracted baptism as a specific program, and suggested we might organize some kind of sprinkling.†
Chpt 2
- To reshape his garden into mounds; to submit to Tata Ndu on the subject of river baptism; to listen at all to Tata Ndu or even the rantings of Mama Tataba.†
Chpt 2
- Mama made me a sling out of the same bolt of cloth she brought over to make the bed sheets and baptizing dresses for the African girls.†
Chpt 2
- We haven't baptized any yet.†
Chpt 2
- In Kilanga these are matters of religious observance, they are baptism and communion.†
Chpt 2
- Batiza pronounced with the tongue curled just so means "baptism."†
Chpt 3
- He has tried to explain how baptism—the batiza—would have changed everything.†
Chpt 3
- If baptized, the children would be in heaven now.†
Chpt 3
- "She wasn't baptized yet," he said.†
Chpt 4
- It's true that she wasn't baptized.†
Chpt 4
- He was going to baptize his own child along with all of Kilanga's, on that great day down at the river when his dream finally came true.†
Chpt 4
- I am only baptizing in water, but someone is standing among you of whom you do not know.†
Chpt 4
- In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost I baptize you, my son.†
Chpt 4
- Father took his hand away and waited, I suppose, for the miracle of baptism to take hold.†
Chpt 4
- The dust on our feet turned blood-colored and the sky grew very dark, while Father moved around the circle baptizing each child in turn, imploring the living progeny of Kilanga to walk forward into the light.†
Chpt 4
- I imagined him still standing in our yard, frozen under the deluge, baptizing an endless circle of children, who would slip away and return with new faces requiring his blessing.†
Chpt 5
- I got baptized by mud.†
Chpt 5
- He was still trying to baptize children, I know this for a fact.†
Chpt 5
- Soon the priests were holding mass baptisms on shore and marching their converts onto ships bound for sugar plantations in Brazil, slaves to the higher god of commodity agriculture.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(baptism) a Christian ceremony signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth
or:
a challenging experience that initiates or purifieseditor's notes: Most churches baptize infants, but some require an adult to request baptism, and a few (such as the Quakers) require no baptism at all.
Typically, water is used as part of the ceremony, such as sprinkling a little water on a baby's head; though some churches use complete submersion in water.