Confirmation Origins and Reform
- New York Pueblo Publishing Co. 1988
- 137p
includes index and biblioraphy
Origins CHAPTER ONE The Place and Function of Liturgical Dismissals 3 1. The Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus 5 2. Eastern Evidence 8 a. The Canons of Laodicea 8 b. The Apostolic Constitutions 10 c. Egeria`s Travels 12 3. Ambrose, Augustine, and the West 14 4. Monastic Missae 20 5. Communion Dismissals: Prayers of Inclination 27 6. Summary 31 CHAPTER TWO A Baptismal Missa 39 1. The Apostolic Tradition 41 2. Innocent I, Consignation, and Confirmation 52 3. New Perspectives 65 4. Origins of Confirmation 69 Reform CHAPTER THREE The Reform of Confirmation 81 i. The Initiatory Reform in General 82 2. The Reform of Confirmation 89 a. Divinae Consortium Naturae of Paul VI 90 b. The Question of Age 97 3. Problems and Estimates 101