Recovering the catechumenate: implications for Presbyterians

Thomas G Nelson

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Recovering the catechumenate: implications for Presbyterians

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Thomas G Nelson. Recovering the Catechumenate: Implications for Presbyterians. Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/51fd015c-07e8-46db-be48-829037f9814c?q=2003.

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T. G. Nelson. Recovering the catechumenate: implications for Presbyterians. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/51fd015c-07e8-46db-be48-829037f9814c?q=2003

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Thomas G Nelson. Recovering the Catechumenate: Implications for Presbyterians. Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/51fd015c-07e8-46db-be48-829037f9814c?q=2003.

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Thomas G Nelson

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Catechumenate is a process by which the congregation offers Christian formation to new adult believers. The primary teacher/catechesis is the liturgy of the Church. In the ancient church the process had four steps or stages: evangelization/inquiry or the precatechumenate, the catechumenate or catechesis, purification or enlightenment marked by the rites of Christian initiation, and finally mystagogy. This ancient four step process disappears sometime around the fifth century. The Roman Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council called for a recovery of the catechumenate which led to the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults. The RCIA is a set of rites which structure the four steps of the catechumenal process. This project is a survey of the past forty years of catechumenal practice and the implications for Presbyterians. This project is divided into four chapters which address: The recovery of the ancient practice in the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults and an analysis of the rites, the renewal of catechumenal practice and experimentation in the Episcopal Church in America, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the United Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church (USA), the theology of 'unified rites' in the Presbyterian Church particularly focusing on confirmation and admission to the Lord's Table, and strategizing about the renewal of baptism as preparation for catechumenal practice in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and raising implications of such practice.

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