Confirmation: Presbyterian Practices in Ecumenical Perspective

By Richard Robert Osmer and Richard Robert Osmer

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664500005
• ISBN13: 9780664500009
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Geneva Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"