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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... regard to the way in which most scholars , including me , have accepted as fact the baptismal theology of Ro- mans 6 as fundamentally " Western " and John 3 : 5 as fundamentally " Eastern " ( i.e. , Syrian and Egyptian ) . My own ...
... regard to the rites of Christian initiation , then , means that we have to study history . There is no other way . Robert Taft has said on numerous occasions with regard to liturgy that " those ignorant of history are subject to the ...
... regard . The Jordan River itself was " ritually unclean , " and so hardly fitting for a rite of Jewish " purification . " 21 Rather , its significance lies in its historical connotations for Israel . For , just as centuries before ...
... regard to Johannine liturgical and sacramental rites . Footwashing does not go away but , at most , it remains either as a mere supplement to baptism or as an occasional dramatic rite demonstrating Christian service and humility . The ...
... regard to lit- urgy . That is , Luke's account of Pentecost in Acts 2 , certainly suggests that by the end of the first century there was already a strong correla- tion being made between the Pentecostal gift of the Holy Spirit to the ...
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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 |