Confirmation: Presbyterian Practices in Ecumenical Perspective.(Review)

Journal of Ecumenical Studies | March 22, 1998| | Copyright

Richard Robert Osmer. Louisville, KY: Geneva Press, 1996. Pp. 260. Paper.

Osmer contends that the processes of modernization make it extremely difficult for childhood or early-adolescent catechetical instruction or personal profession of faith to have lasting effect. He argues that confirmation must be a self-conscious and free act of Christian maturity, disengaged from a particular age or the usual catechetical process.

Osmer stands within the scholarly consensus that confirmation has no scriptural base but emerged from the Roman baptismal liturgy ...

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