This book is not a formal research study concocted in a calm and disinterested ivory tower. Michel Dujarier is not a dispassionate observer of his subject; he searches for the practical truth of the matter in order to apply it to his immediate concers: conversion, faith, and baptim as the seal and sign of thet conversion and faith. And these concers are not abstractions: they are focused on have derived from the very real catechumens Fr. Djuarier is working with in his catechumenal communities in West Africa.