Augustine and the Catechumenate
Augustine and the Catechumenate
Abstract
Intro – Titlepage – Copyright – Dedication – Contents – List of Charts – List of Abbreviations – Foreword – Preface to the Revised Edition – INTRODUCTION To Return to the Sources – What the RCIA Says – What the RCIA Implies – What the RCIA Does Not Say – The Investigation – CHAPTER ONE The Fourth-Century Catechumenate – Third-Century Inheritances: North Africa – The Catechumenate: Trends in the Greek East – Lent: Trends in the Greek East – Mystagogy: Trends in the Greek East – CHAPTER TWO Augustine and the Catechumenate in Milan – Augustine the Catechumen – Augustine the Petitioner – Augustine the Neophyte – Lessons from the Threshold – CHAPTER THREE Evangelization: Unrolling the Scroll – The Candidate: Milieu, Motives, and Types – The Catechesis: Principles – (1) The Classical Background – (2) The Narrative: Making the Case for Christianity – (3) Exhortation and End Time – The Catechist: Cultivating Delight – The Catechesis: Examples – The Message and the Messenger – CHAPTER FOUR Catechumenate: Breaking Open the Bread of the Word – Feeding the Hungry: The Liturgy of the Word – Noisy Improvisations: The Sermon and Its Hearers – (1) Written Text and Oral Performance – (2) Audience Response – (3) The Disciplina Arcani – A Seasoned Rhetoric: The Method – Scripture and Its Riddles: The Core Curriculum – Conversi ad Dominum: The Dismissal – Excursus: The Delay of Baptism? – CHAPTER FIVE Catechumenate: The Eagle and the Staircase – Two Sessions: December 406 – Tractate on John – Exposition of Psalm – Melodic Themes – (1) The Paradox of Christ – (2) The Church as Body of Christ – (3) Baptism and the Donatists – (4) A Spirituality for Exiles – Turning to the Catechumens – Tractate 3 – Tractate 4 – Tractate 10 – Tractate 11 – Tractate 12 – Theater of the Word – CHAPTER SIX Lent: Time in the Womb
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