The Rites of Christian Initiation: Their Evolution and InterpretationLiturgical Press, 2007 - 487 עמודים Originally published in 1999, The Rites of Christian Initiation was haled for its clarity and comprehensiveness. Kalian McDonnell, OSB, called it the best overall treatment of Christian initiation available, and Paul Bradshaw predicted it would be the standard textbook on the subject for very many years to come." The current edition draws on new translations of early texts on baptism as well as recent scholarship on the early traditions in the East and West. It is sure to replace itself as the new standard reference on the rites of Christian initiation. Maxwell E. Johnson's expanded and revised text provides a more complete view of the history and interpretation of the rites in the Eastern Church, including two chapters that explore the pre-Nicene Eastern and Western traditions in detail. Revisiting the theology of baptism, this edition also provides more nuanced positions on the Eastern and Western traditions. Finally, recent liturgical developments in American Protestant churches, particularly Lutheran, as well as the ongoing development of the RCIA and confirmation practices of Catholics, made it necessary to revisit the place and meaning of these rites in the church today. Maxwell E. Johnson, PhD, is professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and an ordained minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He has published in Worship and is the editor of and contributor to Living Water, Sealing Spirit: Readings on Christian Initiation (Liturgical Press, 1995) and the revised and expanded edition of E.C. Whitaker, Documents of the Baptismal Liturgy (Liturgical Press and S.P.C.K., 2003), to which this study serves as a companion volume. " |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 83
... appears to be a rather common human and social process of initiation , then , can be of great help to us in understanding the par- ticular shape of the rites of Christian initiation specifically . Like all human rites of passage , those ...
... appears rather as the inception , the very beginnings of initiation , the " sacrament " of initiation , if you will , the rite of incorporation into Christ . Nothing , not even baptism , and certainly nothing like confirmation , was ...
... appears , was not a pre - requisite for but a consequence of this encounter with Jesus at table . Indeed , one does not earn the labels of " drunkard and glutton , " or " friend of tax collectors and sinners " when following pre ...
... appears to be a once - for - all time ritual of repentance , those washings or immersions at Qumran were repeatable ... appear to have been self- administered , while that of John was administered by him to those who received it . And ...
... appear- ance in an initiation context within early liturgical texts from this Syr- ian tradition . Jesus and Baptism in the Fourth Gospel The significance of the Synoptic portrayal of Jesus ' baptism and its influence on the development ...
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Christian Initiation in the Prenicene West | 83 |
Initiation in the Christian East During the Fourth and Fifth Centuries | 115 |
Baptismal Preparation and the Origins of Lent | 201 |
Christian Initiation in the Middle Ages | 219 |
The Rites of Initiation in the Christian East | 269 |
Christian Initiation in the Protestant and Catholic Reforms of the Sixteenth Century | 309 |
Christian Initiation in the Churches Today | 375 |
Back Home to the Font The Place of a Baptismal Spirituality and Its Implications in a Displaced World | 451 |
Index | 479 |
Initiation in the Christian West During the Fourth and Fifth Centuries | 159 |