Confirmation: Presbyterian Practices in Ecumenical Perspective / Edition 1

by Richard Robert Osmer

Overview

Richard Osmer's Confirmation provides a comprehensive discussion of the particularities of the Protestant experience of confirmation by examining Presbyterian, Episcopal, Lutheran, and Methodist practices. Osmer explains the need for a renewed understanding of confirmation in the Presbyterian Church and proposes a two-step process of confirmation that addresses concerns unique to two developmental transitions: from preteen to adolescence and from adolescence to adulthood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664500009
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	02/01/1996
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Richard Robert Osmer is Thomas W. Synnott Professor of Christian Education and Director of the School of Christian Education at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he is the author of Confirmation: Presbyterian Practices in Ecumenical Perspective, Teaching for Faith, and A Teachable Spirit.