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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... body of writings called The Dead Sea Scrolls and from references in the writings of the pro - Roman , Jewish historian Josephus , it is certainly clear that ritual washings , immersions , or ritual baths were a common practice . 12 Some ...
... body washing in a river . And some scholars believe the root baptizing traditions of the much later Mandeans of Mesopota- mia must be traced to the Transjordan during the time of the origins of Christianity . . . . New Testament texts ...
... body anointing of the candidate administered by the appro- priate ministers ; and ( 4 ) baptism itself accompanied by the " invocation of the divine names , " presumably some version of a baptismal formula . That this ritual was ...
... body , and the establisher of the new man in the Trinity , and which becomes a participation in the remission of sins . Glory to you , hidden power of baptism . Glory to you , hidden power , that communi- cates with us in baptism ...
... body anointing as well ( cf. also the Didascalia above ) . In those passages , according to her , the emphasis in the rite is shift- ing from a pneumatic assimilation of the candidate to the messianic kingship of Christ ( symbolized by ...
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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 |