text: Surely Metropolitan Kallistos' "healing of the alienation within us" is a bit more modern than "the more ancient view of baptism."  ;-)
  
  But of course your point that his point that baptism as integration into the new life in Christ is more ancient that the dominant Western dominant notion of washing way the mark left on the soul by original sin. In the West, I think alternate notions never dies out, but removing the stain of sin was pushed in catechisms and thus became the instinctive first thought in the minds of Catholics.