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'Reformation and Modern Rituals is highly recommended for all seminary collections in conjunction with Early and Medieval Rituals if not already part of the library collection.' Catholic Library World '[Bryan Spinks] has produced the most comprehensive history of Christian baptism available, perhaps the most complete ever published.' Touchstone '... [an] important study by a leading liturgical historian...' Archives (Journal of the British Records Association) '...a useful addition to the shelves of all involved in pastoral ministry who wish to look further afield than their own practice and of those whose interest is in academic liturgical study and teaching.' Anaphora '... fills an important gap, both for the student and the scholar... one is struck both by the sheer variety of the material, and by the surefooted way in which Spinks negotiates his journey through the perilous terrain of scholarly controversy and ongoing research... All in all, Spinks has provided the world of scholarship and teaching with many favours for the years to come in [this] well-presented and thoroughly researched [work].' Journal of Theological Studies '... of particular value in that Bryan Spinks presents that variety and disagreement, causing and caused by the Churches' separation, so that readers are forced to identify and reflect on the traditions in which they have been formed, implicitly or explicitly. Readers who may never have questioned the meaning and purpose of their own baptism will be enabled to align themselves with one or more liturgical practices or nuanced theological positions of the foundational event in Christian discipleship.' Church Times '... an essential addition to the considerable literature on the subject... surely an obvious choice for teachers of liturgy to recommend to their students, taking its place in the library of essentials.' Theology 'Bryan Spinks is to be commended for organizing and explaining a vast ocean of information.' Lutheran Quarterly 'Bryan Spinks provides here an extremely well-written and carefully documented history and theology of Christian initiation rites from their beginnings all the way through the great diversity of modern liturgical practice. Spinks's erudite grasp of such a multiplicity of traditions and rites is impressive. It is no small feat to wade through so carefully and authoritatively the varieties of baptismal rites and interpretations, not only in the early and medieval periods, but especially in the second volume, that is, in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, a time period often ignored by scholars of liturgical history... students and teachers alike will find both volumes to be helpful introductions to baptismal rite and theology.' Church History

'Reformation and Modern Rituals is highly recommended for all seminary collections in conjunction with Early and Medieval Rituals if not already part of the library collection.' Catholic Library World '[Bryan Spinks] has produced the most comprehensive history of Christian baptism available, perhaps the most complete ever published.' Touchstone '... [an] important study by a leading liturgical historian...' Archives (Journal of the British Records Association) '...a useful addition to the shelves of all involved in pastoral ministry who wish to look further afield than their own practice and of those whose interest is in academic liturgical study and teaching.' Anaphora '... fills an important gap, both for the student and the scholar... one is struck both by the sheer variety of the material, and by the surefooted way in which Spinks negotiates his journey through the perilous terrain of scholarly controversy and ongoing research... All in all, Spinks has provided the world of scholarship and teaching with many favours for the years to come in [this] well-presented and thoroughly researched [work].' Journal of Theological Studies '... of particular value in that Bryan Spinks presents that variety and disagreement, causing and caused by the Churches' separation, so that readers are forced to identify and reflect on the traditions in which they have been formed, implicitly or explicitly. Readers who may never have questioned the meaning and purpose of their own baptism will be enabled to align themselves with one or more liturgical practices or nuanced theological positions of the foundational event in Christian discipleship.' Church Times '... an essential addition to the considerable literature on the subject... surely an obvious choice for teachers of liturgy to recommend to their students, taking its place in the library of essentials.' Theology 'Bryan Spinks is to be commended for organizing and explaining a vast ocean of information.

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Bryan D. Spinks is Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology at Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School, USA

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