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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... especially competent in the early period . The revised version has substantial additions : chapters for both East and West in the ante - Nicene period , includ- ing new material on the Odes of Solomon ; new material on the Cappadocians ...
... especially of patristic and medieval sources and authors , are now out of date and are here brought up to date in con- junction with my own new edition of the standard collection of early and medieval Christian Initiation texts : E.C. ...
... especially with regard to the RCIA and changes in confirmation practice , have also called for some updating . My intent here is to offer a text that is as up - to - date as possible in order to provide for teachers and students a ...
... ) . Leonell Mitchell's The Meaning of Ritual ( New York : Paulist Press , 1977 ) remains a very helpful and accessible treat- ment as well . See especially 1-22 . full members of that community . Most often , we xvii Introduction.
... especially the case with the rites of Christian initiation . To draw upon data " only from the experience of itself " in Christian ini- tiation is a dangerous methodology for understanding and interpret- ing those rites . Our own ...
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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 |