Confirmation

by Osmer, Richard Robert

• ISBN13: 9780664500009
• ISBN10: 0664500005
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-02-01
• Publisher: Geneva Pr

Summary

Richard Osmer'sConfirmationprovides a comprehensive discussion of the particularities of the Protestant experience of confirmation by examining Presbyterian, Episcopal, Lutheran, and Methodist practices. Osmer explains the need for a renewed understanding of confirmation in the Presbyterian Church and proposes a two-step process of confirmation that addresses concerns unique to two developmental transitions: from preteen to adolescence and from adolescence to adulthood.

Author Biography

Richard Robert Osmer is Associate Professor of Christian Education at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Troubling Questions
Confirmation as a Current Challenge	p. 1
Adolescence: The Emergence of a New Stage in the Life Cycle	p. 3
Confirmation in Modern Context: Individualization and Identity Formation	p. 9
Confirmation in Historical Perspective	p. 27
Antecedents and Origins of Confirmation	p. 33
Changes in Confirmation and Catechetical Instruction in the Reformation	p. 59
Lutheran, Anglican-Episcopal, and United Methodist Confirmation Practices	p. 87
American Presbyterian Confirmation Practices	p. 113
A Contemporary Proposal for Confirmation	p. 161
A Theology of Confirmation	p. 168
A Fitting Practice of Confirmation	p. 194
Epilogue: Confirmation in Practical Theological Perspective	p. 219
Notes	p. 229
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.