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Defend, O Lord

Martin Davie

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English
Latimer Trust
28 March 2022
A key way in which the benefits of the work of Christ are conveyed to those who respond to the gospel with repentance and faith is through the two rites of 'Christian initiation': baptism and confirmation. In baptism we die to our old life of sin and death and rise to a new life with God which will be fully revealed at the resurrection of the dead at the end of time. In confirmation we reaffirm the promises which were made at our baptism, and we are given strength through the Spirit to live the new life we have been given in baptism, and protection from all that would turn us away from God. The Church of England's normative confirmation service, to which the Common Worship services are authorised alternatives, is the confirmation service in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.

This little book provides an introduction to the 1662 service. It describes how confirmation developed in the Early Church and during the Middle Ages and how the Prayer Book confirmation service developed after the Reformation. It also provides a detailed commentary on the Prayer Book service, and answers the ten key questions people today generally ask about confirmation.

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Imprint:   Latimer Trust
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 7mm
Weight:   191g
ISBN:   9781906327743
ISBN 10:   1906327742
Pages:   124
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Dr Martin Davie is a lay Anglican theologian who was for thirteen years theological consultant to the Church of England's House of Bishops and theological secretary to its Council for Christian Unity. He is currently theological consultant to the Church of England Evangelical Council, a fellow of the Latimer Trust and the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life, and Assistant Lecturer in Christian Doctrine at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.

Reviews for Defend, O Lord

"""Defend, O Lord provides an excellent introduction to the practice of confirmation as it is understood in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Martin Davie supplies a concise and clear summary of the background to the confirmation service, its liturgical development, and the theology that underlies it. There is also a very helpful commentary on the text, and insightful answers to questions that arise about the practice of confirmation. It is a very readable book by a scholar who has mastered the material and made it accessible to a wide audience. I recommend it wholeheartedly."" - Justyn Terry, Wycliffe College, Vice Principal and Academic Dean ""I wish I had been given a book like this when I became a bishop. Martin explains the meaning of the service in a way helpful to the enquiring candidate and superbly offers to overstretched clergy (and bishops) the reasons why attention to the Prayer Book will resource and shape discipleship making now. I hope his updating of the Book of Common Prayer service will be included as an alternative to that in Common Worship. May many be blessed in their reading of this book who come to confirmation and lay on hands after the manner of the apostles."" - Keith Sinclair, Church of England Evangelical Council, National Director"


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