One of the chief challenges of the Second Vatican Council was to reclaim the meaning of baptism, especially as the foundation of service and mission in the world. Fifty years after the close of that watershed gathering, nineteen distinguished religious leaders and scholars reexamine that challenge and its implications for preaching and ministry today. This book reinvigorates an important conversation.

""These marvelously eclectic essays provide an invaluable witness to the challenge of reanimating the Christian mission to deepen the faith of the baptized. Gathered at the Notre Dame...