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Confirmation then and now (Alcuin Club collections)
John Douglas Close Fisher

S.P.C.K. for the Alcuin Club, 1978

If you would like to know about Confirmation - where it comes from, what it means, it's future - this book is for you. It is a reissue of Fisher's classic study of the sacramental rite of Confirmation. Fisher examines what the early rite of Confirmation consisted of and what grace it was believed to confer in the period when there is undisputed evidence of the rite's existence. The text moves from early nonbiblical evidence through a survey of ...

Christian initiation: baptism in the medieval west;: A study in the disintegration of the primitive rite of ...

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John Douglas Close Fisher

[Published for the] Alcuin Club [by] S.P.C.K, 1970

BAPTISM / CHRISMATION (confirmation)/COMMUNION
This volume is probably not of interest to non Christians unless they happen also to be students of medieval western history or of the histories of religions. Eastern Christians may find the documents of interest as they illustrate the ancient customs of the west still current in their eastern communities. This remarkable volume was first published in 1965 as #XLVII in the Alcuin Club ...

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