ben collected about $2.2 million, Carstens-Kant said, adding: “The congregation alone just had to cover about 300,000 euros (about $367,000).”
The Center for Baptism is becoming not only a place of baptism and baptismal remembrance, but a place to dis- cuss the meaning of and questions about baptism. Today Carstens-Kant offers various programs for children, teens and adults to experience, remember and talk about baptism. She looks forward to reviving discussions of Luther’s theology at a site where people mostly remember his birth, his life and snap pictures of his baptismal font. “I am hoping to have an ecumenical, lively, even criti-
cal discussion of Luther’s theology and his understand- Luther’s baptismal font
T
Scott Moore, an ELCA pastor now at the University of Erfurt, Germany, baptizes Saskia Trumpf-Pollock (inset) and her brother Tristan, 2, at Sts. Peter and Paul in Eisleben, Ger- many. Martin Luther was baptized in this same church.
ing of baptism,” she said.
The Center of Baptism also plays a critical role in the Luther Decade (see page 28), a worldwide celebration from 2008 to 2017 of the Reformation that began Oct. 31, 1517. For more information on the decade, visit www.
luther2017.de/en.
For a feature, “I am baptized,” on Luther and baptism, visit www.
thelutheran.org/feature/october
hree years after baby Martin was baptized, the growing congregation of Sts. Peter and Paul needed to expand its building. During the construction, someone moved the font and it went missing. So the church reopened in 1518 with a new baptismal font. What happened to the other one? When it resurfaced around 1726-27, it was in the backyard of a local school
principal where it had been used as a flowerpot. Not in good shape, the remains of the font were brought back to church and restored for use as a memorial stone. In 1837 the remains were again restored for use in a baptismal font. The last restoration took place from 2004-05.
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