The Rite of Christian Initiation
Subtitle: Adult Rituals and Roman Catholic Ecclesiology
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2013
Number of pages: 230
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The perfect society and the mystical body: Catholic ecclesiology from Trent to Pope Pius XII; The extraordinary form 1: the 1614 Ordo Baptismi Adultorum; Sacrament of Christ and people of God: ecclesiology at the eve of Vatican II; The extraordinary form 2: the Christian initiation of adults from 1948 to Vatican II; The ecclesiologies of Vatican II: the Church ad intra; The ordinary form: the rite of Christian initiation of adults; Christian initiation and the Church ad extra; Hermeneutics of continuity and discontinuity; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.