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31. John Wesley, Works, X: 151. 32. Walker, Norris, Lotz, and Handy, A History ofthe Christian Church, 4th ed., (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985), 450. 33. Leonel I. Mitchell, "Christian Initiation: The Reformation Period/* Made, Not Born, 95. 34. William P. Haugaard, "The Continental Reformation of the Sixteenth Century,** A Faithful Church, ch. 5; and Fredrica Harris Thompsett, **Godly Instruction in Reformation England: The Challenge of Religious Education in the Tudor Commonwealth,*' A Faithful Church, ch. 6. 35. Thompsett, "Godly Instruction,*' 160. 36. Reginald H. Fuller, "Confirmation in the Episcopal Church and in the Church of England," Confirmation Re-Examined, 11. 37. Fuller, "Confirmation in the Episcopal Church,'* 12. 38. William O. Roberts Jr., Initiation to Adulthood: An Ancient Rite of Passage in Contemporary Form (New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1982). Roberts's book is a serious attempt to incorporate the notion of rite of passage into the liturgical life of Christian adolescents. 39. See Frant T. Fair, Oritafor Black Youth (Valley Forge, Pa.: Judson Press, 1977); Michael Dujarier, "Developments in Christian Initiation in West Africa," Structures of Initiation in Crisis, Luis Maldonado and David Power, eds. (New York: Seabury Press, 1980), 40. 40. Robert L. Browning and Roy A. Reed, The Sacrament of Religious Education and Liturgy (Birmingham, Ah: Religious Education Press, 1985), 86. 41. For an excellent discussion of modern educational trends consult Robert L. Browning and Roy A. Reed, The Sacrament of Religious Education and Liturgy, 42. This is true for wide ranges of the theological spectrum. Conservative charismatic congregations maintain spirit-filled adult initiation rites; the Roman Catholics, who also continue to grow, have spent much energy on developing the RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults). 43.1 have chosen not to repeat the excellent survey of the heritage of Methodist and United Methodists by Ole R. Borgen. See Ole E. Borgen, "Baptism, Confirmation, and Church Membership in the Methodist Church," Parts I and II. Also see Henry H. Knight, "The Significance of Baptism for the Christian Life: Wesley's Pattern of Christian Initiation," Worship, 63, No. 1 (March 1989). In addition, consult the fine works on baptism by United Methodist liturgical scholars Laurence Hull Stookey, Baptism, Christ's Act in the Church (Nashville: Abingdon, 1982), and James F. White, Sacraments as God's Self-Giving (Nashville: Abingdon, 1983). 44. Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, (Geneva, Switzerland: World Council of Churches), 13. The new United Methodist liturgy includes these words in the laying on of hands at infant baptism and (with slightly alterated verb form) at confirmation: "The Holy Spirit work within you, that being born through water and the Spirit, you may be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ." 38 QUARTERLY REVIEW/SPRING 1993
K. James Stein Baptismal Regeneration: Is It an Option for United Methodists? P . rofessor Lawrence Stookey of Wesley Theological Seminary, writing in Doxology, the journal of the Order of St. Luke, has stated that United Methodists face a crucial challenge of understanding and interpretation with respect to the new baptismal rites of our denomination. This was evident in the fact that the most substantive (indeed, almost the only) changes made at the 1988 General Conference to the report ofthe Hymnal Revision Committee, were in this area. 1 From several "grassroots" sources, actually from several generations of our seminary alumni/ae, I have heard criticism of our new baptismal liturgies. The general tenor of complaint is that the new liturgies tend to take us to a more Roman Catholic or Lutheran understanding of baptism than we had hitherto observed. As I turned to the baptismal liturgies in the new hymnal, I found words leaning in the direction of baptismal regeneration that might give offense: K. James Stein is Professor of Church History at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. BAPTISMAL REGENERATION 39
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