Supporting a previous research which concerned the formation of meaning in the symbols, the article shows its usefulness when looking for an interpretation of baptismal symbolism in its liturgical situation (as, in this case, in the ritual of the christian initiation of adults). This philosophical approach of the liturgy of baptism first distinguishes the natural and cultural conditions of its symbolic forms and then discovers the way the meaning of these forms is effectively realised in the totalily of the liturgical act, through different compositions between symbols, and thanks to a cooperation of the word, which removes the indetermination and the indecision of the symbols, while allowing the recognition of the way baptism identifies: through alliance and through assimilation. Should we not conclude that a conceptual analysis applied to liturgy is required so that liturgy becomes theology?
Supporting a previous research which concerned the formation of meaning in the symbols, the article shows its usefulness when looking for an interpretation of baptismal symbolism in its liturgical situation (as, in this case, in the ritual of the christian initiation of adults). This philosophical approach of the liturgy of baptism first distinguishes the natural and cultural conditions of its symbolic forms and then discovers the way the meaning of these forms is effectively realised in the totalily of the liturgical act, through different compositions between symbols, and thanks to a cooperation of the word, which removes the indetermination and the indecision of the symbols, while allowing the recognition of the way baptism identifies: through alliance and through assimilation. Should we not conclude that a conceptual analysis applied to liturgy is required so that liturgy becomes theology?