Aims
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• To enable students to acquire a knowledge of the history of baptism and eucharist.
• To consider the theology and practice of these two sacraments.
• To encourage students to become sensitive and well-informed planners and leaders of baptismal and eucharistic liturgies.
• To enable students to make informed judgements on liturgical matters appertaining to baptism and the eucharist.
• To develop an understanding of baptism and eucharist in the student's own tradition and in other Christian traditions.
• To enable students to participate in liturgical development and revision in their own churches.
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Learning Outcomes
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By the end of the module, students will be able to:
• demonstrate an understanding of the historical development of baptism and the eucharist;
• comment on the significance of selected baptismal and eucharistic texts;
• discuss key theological and pastoral issues in baptism and the eucharist;
• relate studies in this module to wider theological and pastoral concerns.
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Content
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• Baptism in the New Testament and its OT antecedents
• The Historical development Of Initiation Rites
• Confirmation
• Baptism in the Protestant Reformation, focusing on the English Prayer Books
• Contemporary issues in initiation, including baptismal policies, the admission of children to communion, ecumenical statements on initiation and recent revision of the baptismal rites
• The Eucharist in the New Testament and its OT antecedents
• The Historical Development of the Eucharist
• Issues in Eucharistic Theology
• The Eucharist in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
• Recent eucharistic revision and ecumenical statements on the eucharist
• Study of selected texts (selected on an ecumenical basis)
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Indicative bibliography
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Church of England, Common Worship: Christian Initiation (London: CHP, 2006).
Crockett, William, Eucharist: Symbol of Transformation (New York: Pueblo Publishing Company, 1989).
Holeton, David, R. (ed.), Our Thanks and Praise: The Eucharist in Anglicanism Today (Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1998).
Johnson, Maxwell, E., The Rites of Christian Initiation (Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 1999).
Methodist Church, The Methodist Worship Book (Peterborough: Methodist Publishing House, 1999).
Spinks, Bryan D., Early and Medieval Rituals and Theologies of Baptism (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).
Spinks, Bryan D., Reformation and Modern Rituals and Theologies of Baptism (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).
Stevenson, Kenneth, Do This: The Shape, Style and Meaning of the Eucharist (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2002).
Stevick, Daniel B., The Altar’s Fire: Charles Wesley’s Hymns on the Lord’s Supper, 1745 Introduction and Exposition (Peterborough: Epworth Press, 2004).
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