The Meaning and Practice of Confirmation
Perspectives from a Sixteenth-Century Controversy
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No rite in the history of Christianity has proven as puzzling as confirmation. What began as imposition of hands became anointing. What once was part of initiation has become a mature act of commitment to the Church. What is a sacrament to one Christian tradition remains an ecclesial rite to another. Confirmation has the embarrassing distinction of being the one rite about which people keep asking, «Just what does it mean?» Turner responds to the question through the study of a post-Reformation controversy about confirmation. Focusing on the work of Robert Bellarmine, the book explores the development of the theology of confirmation on both sides of the Reformation with an eye toward contemporary practice. Featured are a complete listing of the sources used by Bellarmine, John Calvin, and Martin Chemnitz on this topic, and an analysis of the contemporary Catholic and Lutheran rites of confirmation.
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Paul Andrew Turner
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...«a positive contribution toward a solution of the present controversial issue of confirmation in the Churches...studies on Counter Reformation Theology are very scarce, if not non-existent.» (Ghislain Lafont, O.S.B. Abbaye Sainte-Marie de la Pierre-qui-Vire)
«The work deals with its theme in a kind of »confessional contextuality« which is in itself quite interesting.» (Dr. Paolo Ricca, Facoltà Valdese di Teologia, Rome)
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