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Confirmation Canons

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From An Outline of the Faith, commonly called the Catechism, p. 860, Book of Common Prayer 1979

Q. What is Confirmation?
A. Confirmation is the rite in which we express a mature commitment to Christ, and receive strength from the Holy Spirit through prayer and the laying on of hands by a bishop.

Q. What is required of those to be confirmed? A. It is required of those to be confirmed that they have been baptized, are sufficiently instructed in the Christian Faith, are penitent for their sins, and are ready to affirm their confession of Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.

  

 

Episcopal Church canons concerning Confirmation

Title I, Canon 16

Title III, Canon 5.b

• http://www.episcopalarchives.org/e-archives/canons/CandC_FINAL_11.29.2006.pdf

 

  

Diocese of Western Michigan's Confirmation Guidelines

• http://www.edwm.org/diocese/drn/documents/ConfirmationGuidelines.pdf

  

  

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Theoretical Articles

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   Fresh Thoughts on Confirmation - by Ruth Meyers

• http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3818/is_200607/ai_n17175569/print?tag=artBody;col1

  

  

By Water and the Holy Spirt:  Baptism and Confirmation in Anglicanism - by Ruth Meyers

• http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3818/is_200107/ai_n8993961?tag=content;col1

 

Muddying the Waters of Baptism:  The Theology Committee's Report on Baptism, Confirmation and Christian Formation (from the 2005 report of the Theology Committee of the House of Bishops)

• http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3818/is_200607/ai_n17175566?tag=rbxcra.2.a.5

  

  

Towards a New Theology of Confirmation - by Kathryn Tanner

• http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3818/is_200601/ai_n16066365/print?tag=artBody;col1