The Process of Admission to Ordained Ministry:
A Comparative Study Volume II
The First Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, and Wesleyan Rites
James F. Puglisi, S.A.; Mary M. Misrahi, Translator
256 pp., 6 x 9
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Category: Liturgy / Sacramental Theology

Ordination is a complex process that links ministry, local church, confession of faith, and communion. This process is communitarian, liturgical and juridical, and through these traits, sacramental. In this four-volume series Father Puglisi explores the notion that Christian (both Catholic and Protestant) ordination cannot be reduced to a simple rite of installation or to the acceptance of a charge, but is an ecclesial process whereby a Christian receives a charism for the edification of the Church.

In Volume II Father Puglisi analyzes the liturgical and canonical institutions of the Reformation period. He explores the meaning of the Reformed, Anglican, Lutheran, and Wesleyan Rites to recover an understanding of the complex structure of ordination and the implicit connection between ordained ministry and the structuring of the Church.