"When I reflect back on those days, I am utterly amazed at how much good and positive change has occurred in the Church in the intervening years. When I suffer impatience with the state of the Church today, I make a mental list of those ingredients of liturgical renewal now firmly rooted in at least part of the Canadian Anglican Church in which I have spent these 40 years".
Growing in newness of life: Christian initiation in Anglicanism today: papers from the Fourth International Anglican Liturgical Consultation Toronto 1991
Twenty-two essays (plus the Toronto Statement) by twenty-five Anglican liturgists.
Contents divided into five sections: I: The Renewal of Initiation Theology -- II: Baptism, Mission and Ministry -- III: Confirmation and the Renewal of Baptismal Faith -- IV: Rites of Initiation -- V: Patterns of Initiation : An Anglican Mosaic.
Contents: Introduction / David R. Holeton -- Christian Initiation : An Ongoing Agenda for Anglicanism / David R. Holeton -- Theological Foundations for the Practice of Christian Initiation in the Anglican Communion / William R. Crockett -- Theological Foundations for Infant Baptism / Gordon W. Kuhrt -- Consequences of Infant Communion / Gregory Kerr-Wilson and Timothy Perkins -- Baptism and Mission / Louis Weil -- The Catechumenal Challenge to the Church / Robert J. Brooks -- Restoring the Catechumenate in the Decade of Evangelism / John W.B. Hill with Paul Bowie -- Preparing Parents for Infant Baptism / Ronald L. Dowling -- Confirmation / Colin Buchanan -- Liturgical Tradition and Recent Anglican Liturgical Reforms / Thomas J. Talley -- Patterns of Christian Initiation / Kenneth W. Stevenson -- Marked as Christ's Own Forever / Leonel L. Mitchell -- Reflections on Baptismal Symbolism and Baptismal Identity / Philip May -- A Survey of Current Anglican Initiation Rites / Kevin Flynn -- Child Communion : How it Happened in New Zealand / Brian Davis and Tom Brown -- The Bishop in Initiation / J.C. Fricker -- Baptizing the Nation : The Problem of Baptism in an Established Church / Donald Gray -- Pastoral Care and Baptismal Practice on the Fringes of Society : The Diocese of Cuba / Juan Quevedo-Bosch -- Adult Baptism : A Pacific Perspective / Winston Halapua -- Traditional Initiation Rites Among the Ngunis and Their Relationship to Christian Initiation / Themba Jerome Vundla -- An Asian Inculturation of the Baptismal Liturgy / Francis Wickremesinghe -- Initiation in Anglicanism : Where the Women Are / Elizabeth J. Smith -- The Toronto Statement : Walk in Newness of Life.
At head of title: Hoskin Books on Worship and Mission.
"[By] John W.B. Hill".
Includes bibliography, p. 133-139.
This "is a proposal for a restored catechumenate, built upon the vision of the Book of Alternative Services (1985) of the Anglican Church of Canada. It calls us to reconsider the way we prepare people for baptism, and invites us to begin from the baptismal rite itself." -- back cover.
"The material which follows is about catechesis, a new word to many of us, not a very important one. Catechesis is a fundamental pastoral ministry of the Church by which people are enabled to enter into the Church's faith, share its life of service in love, and take responsibility for the hope which Christians share. It is a time of directed growth in discipleship and understanding, which has its center in the celebration of Holy Baptism." -- Foreword.
Contents: Foreword / J.C. Fricker -- Introduction -- Serving Those Entering the Christian Life -- An Order for Catechesis -- Commentary -- Getting There -- Models for Catechists -- Appendix 1: Music for the Rites -- Appendix 2: Comparison with the R.C.I.A -- Appendix 3: Glossary -- Appendix 4: Bibliography.
"Change and controversy are no strangers in the history of St. James', Dundas. This book is not that history. Instead, to celebrate our sesquicentennial we are offering to the Anglican Church of Canada a collection of essays and viewpoints in the hope and expectation that it will inform and help us all as we wrestle with change now and into the future. The intent has not been to provide pat answers, but to raise probing questions". -- Preface.
Includes bibliographical references but NO index.
Contents: Preface / St. James Editorial Committee: K. Mark Haslett, Chair; John M. Hull, Chair, Sesquicentennial Committee; Derek C. Pringle, Rector, St. James' Anglican Church, Dundas, Ontario -- On the Wings of Sophia / Elizabeth Kilbourn -- Beyond the B.A.S.: Liturgical Renewal from the Inside / Joachim Fricker -- Australian Anglicans : Their Constitution and the Ordination of Women / John Davis -- The Seven Last Words of the Church : "We never did it that way before": An Interview with Dorothy Gregson -- Sacrifice and the Sanctity of Life / Sheila and George Grant -- On Teaching the Cats to Talk / Philip Jefferson --Onward Christian Caterpillars / John Bothwell.
"[T]imes have changed. While church-going and automatic baptizing have dramatically declined, at the same time our theologies of the Church and of baptism have just as dramatically changed. The Church now is much more clearly defined as the community of the baptized whose commission is to be a baptizing community comprised of individuals, each having a baptismal ministry. For such a change, a lot of help is needed. .... [This book] offers just the right kind of help. It offers theoretical help based on a sound theology of baptism. It acknowledges the gap in assumptions between the Church's renewed theology of baptism and inherited family expectations. It states clearly that the renewed place of baptism in the life of a parish requires an ownership of this renewed theology by the whole worshipping community, not just the clergy".