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- Title
A GIFT YET TO BE RECEIVED: PRESBYTERAL CONFIRMATION AND ANGLICAN-LUTHERAN RELATIONS IN CANADA.
- Authors
PRECIS, Bruce Myers
- Abstract
Differing pastoral practice with regard to the rite of confirmation has surfaced as the first significant point of contention between the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada since they established full communion in 2001. The emergence of "blended parishes" and the presence of clergy from one church serving in the congregations of the other have resulted in disagreement over who may serve as the minister of confirmation. This essay outlines the issue's pastoral, liturgical, sacramental, canonical, and ecclesiological dimensions. It addresses Anglican concerns about adopting presbyteral confirmation, concluding that such an innovation represents a gift that Anglicans can receive from their Lutheran full-communion partners and that such a revised practice is a natural result of such an ecclesial relationship.
- Subjects
CONFIRMATION (Christianity); ANGLICAN Church of Canada; EVANGELICAL Lutheran Church in Canada; ANGLICANS; LUTHERANS; SACRAMENTS &; Christian union
- Publication
Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 2014, Vol 49, Issue 3, p458
- ISSN
0022-0558
- Publication type
Essay