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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... birth in water and the Holy Spirit , " is as " Western " as it is " Eastern , " and that Romans 6 , with some exceptions , was rather new to both East and West as an overall theology and paradigm in the fourth century . This conclusion ...
... birth , marriage , entrance into adulthood , specific vocations , and even the funeral and other rites surrounding death , are those rites by which various communities the world over , since the beginning of time , have celebrated as ...
... birth , for Christians , in the words of Tertullian in the early third century , are " made , not born . " The anthropological analogy with the " rites of pas- sage , " therefore , is only partially true in the case of the Christian ...
... Birth of the Messiah ( Garden City , NY ; Double- day , 1977 ) . For a shorter version see Raymond Brown , An Adult Christ at Christmas ( Collegeville , MN : The Liturgical Press , 1978 ) . event in the life of Jesus but are ...
... birth of God's be- loved " sons and daughters , " in whom God is well pleased . Again , as the apostle Peter said in his baptismal invitation on the first Pente- cost , " Repent , and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus ...
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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 |