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of the Catechumenate: The First Six Centuries (New York: Sadlier, 1979).
9. The research of scholars Michel Dujarier, Aidan Kavanagh. G. W. H, Lampe,
O. C. Edwards Jr., Kenan B. Osborne, and Geoffrey Wainwright have made a strong
case for a one-time unitary rite of baptism.
10. Donald J. Parsons, "Some Theological and Pastoral Implications on Confirmation,
Confirmation Re-Examined, Kendig Brubaker Cully, ed. (Wilton: Morehouse-
Barlow Company, Inc., 1982), 45.
11. For a summary of the evidence see: Michel Dujanier, A History of the
Catechumenate; Cyrille Argenti, "Chrismation"; Robert M. Grant, "Development of
the Christian Catechumenate, " Made, Not Bom, chapter II; G.W.H. Lampe, The Seal
of the Spirit, A Study in the Doctrine of Baptism and Confirmation in the New Testament
and the Fathers (London: SPCK, 1967).
12. Quoted in Argenti, "Chrismation," 54.
13. Kenan B. Osborne, Vie Christian Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism, Confirmation,
Eucharist (New York: Paulist Press, 1987), 64-68.
14. Vie Tliird Mystagogic Catechesis of Cyril of Jerusalem.
15. David R. Holeton, "Confirmation in the 1980's," Ecumenical Perspectives,
71.
16. Allen F. Bray III, "Baptism and Confirmation: A Relationship of Process,"
Confirmation He-Examined, 38.
4.
17. "RICA: From Birth to Maturity, The Story ofaRite," Church (Summer, 1989).
18. Faith and Order Paper No. 111. (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1982),
19. Argenti, "Chrismation," 61.
20. Grant, "Development of Christian Catechumenate," 36.
21. Quoted in Robert L. Browning and Roy A. Reed, Tlie Sacraments in Religious
Education and Liturgy. (Birmingham: Religious Education Press, 1985).
22. Foyers mixtes No. 50, Lyons, 1981.
23. Holeton, "Confirmation" 69.
24. See Nathan D.Mitchell, "Dissolution ofthe Rite of Christian Initiation,"
Not Born, chapter II.
25. Cyrille Argenti, "Chrismation," 46.
26. Quoted in Grant, "Development of a Christian Catechumenate," 37.
27. Consult J. D. C. Fisher, Christian Initiation: Baptism in the Medieval West, A
Study in the Disintegration ofthe Primitive Rite of Initiation (London: SPCK, 1965)
for what is considered the definitive study of the relationship between baptism and
confirmation in the Middle Ages.
28. Osborn, The Christimi Sacraments, 70.
29. Milton McC. Gatch, "Basic Christian Education from the Decline of Catechesis
to the Rise ofthe Catechisms," A Faithful Church, John H. Westerhoff III and O. C.
Edwards Jr., eds. (Wilton, Conn.: Morehouse Barlow Co., Inc.), 68.
30. See ArthurC. Repp, Confirmation in theLutheran Church (St. Louis: Concordia
Press, 1964), 21f.
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