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Confirmation - A Study in the Development of Sacramental Theology (Paperback)
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Confirmation - A Study in the Development of Sacramental Theology (Paperback)
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EVEN those who are possessed of a mere superficial acquaintance
with Sacramental Theology will have noticed what pains our Catholic
Theologians have taken to provide an answer to the question 'How
did Christ institute the Sacraments?' They cannot, moreover, have
failed to notice that the writers have sought for a solution along
two different lines. Some prefer to regard the matter from an a
priori standpoint and deduce, what is ' from' what ought to be.'
Others, questioning the premises, prefer to examine facts before
they theorise. The conclusions of the two schools are, as might be
suspected, as divergent as their methods. Convinced that the
historico-theological attitude is correct, the writer of the
present essay turned his attention to the Sacrament of Confirmation
to see if he could derive any light from its history: the essay is
a presentation of the results of his investigations. He finds that
in apostolic times, and for centuries afterwards, the rite of
Confirmation consisted of an imposition of hands with prayer. The
lineal descendant of this rite is, he maintains, consignation with
chrism together with the indicative form. He cannot sympathize much
with those who see an imposition in the very act of unction: he
thinks that the theory is a deus ex machina solution of a
difficulty which rests on false assumptions. The antiquity to which
it lays claim does not lessen its improbability. It was begotten of
difficulties, as it thrives in them. The history of this
sacramental rite is of exceptional interest; and the writer has
found it none the less interesting because it has forced him,
against his wishes almost, to the conclusion that Christ determined
the matter and form of the Sacrament merely in a generic fashion,
and left to his Church the power to make specific changes in the
sacred rite.
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