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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... formula , " I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit " ) . Because of this , it has been natural to view the baptismal command of the risen Lord in Matthew 28 : 16-20 as indicat- ing that such a " ...
... formulas at all but as theological or cate- chetical interpretations of the very meaning of baptism itself . That is , to be baptized " in " or " into the name of Jesus " is to be baptized into Christ , to be associated as closely as ...
... formula , though it is unclear here if an actual " formula " is intended ; and ( 4 ) ongoing participation in the Eucharist , though it is not clear from the document if " first communion " functioned as the culmination of the baptismal ...
... formula " to be recited , and whether the baptismal rite culminated immediately in the Eucha- rist ) , the Didache also does not indicate any preferred day or season for baptism , is silent about what sort of profession of faith may ...
... formula recited by the one who baptizes . The use of " invoked , " in fact , may favor the interpretation that a formula was recited over the candi- date , " a practice certainly demonstrated in early Syrian documents . On the other ...
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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 |