A History of the Catechumenate

A History of the Catechumenate
Part 1 Footnotes

Abbreviations

AAS	Acta Apostolicae Sedis, Rome.
ACW	Ancient Christian Writers, Westminster, Maryland, The Newman Bookshop.
CCL	Corpus Christianorum, series latina.
ES	Collection Les Ecrits des Saints, Ed. du Soleil Levant, Namur.
FC	Fathers of the Church, Washington, D.C., The Catholic University of America Press.
GCS	Die Griechische Christlichen Schriftsteller, Leipzig, Berlin.
LC	Collections Lettres Chrétiennes, collection, Ictus, Paris.
PG	Patrologie Grecque, Migne, Paris.
PL	Patrologie Latine, Migne, Paris.
PLS	Patrologie Latine, suppleements.
PO	Patrologie Orientale.
SC	Sources Chrétiennes, Ed. du Cerf, Paris.
ST	Studi e Testi, collection, Vatican City.
TD	Textes et Documents pour I'Étude Historique du Christianisme, collection, H. Hemmer and P. Lejay, Paris.

¹ Cf. Michel Dujarier, Le Parrainage des adultes aux trois premiers siècles de I'Eglise, Parole et mission 4, Paris, 1962, pp. 68-171.

² Cf. J. Dauvillier, Les temps apostoliques: ler siècle, Sirey, Paris, 1970.

³ Tertullian, De bapt. 18, 20. The Writings of Quintus Sept. Flor. Tertuilianus, vol. 1, Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, Ante-Nicene Christian Library, vol. XI, Edinburgh, Clark, 1869, p. 252.

⁴ Augustine, De fide et op., 9, 14; St. Augustine, Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects, trans. by Charles T. Wilcox, FC 27, p. 237.

⁵ In the narrative of the baptism of the eunuch, the intention is not to give an example of baptismal preparation as it was practiced at the time. It even seems that Philip's conduct as far as baptism was concerned was not always exemplary. The case of Simon the Magician (Acts 8:9-25) shows that he tended to proceed more hastily than he should. One may wonder if his attachment to the community of Caesarea (Acts 21:8-9), which ended his admirable itinerant charism (while St. Paul was beginning his), was not motivated by the necessity to give him some balance and to restrict him by an established authority.

⁶ Augustine, De fide et op., 8, 13; FC 27, p. 235.

⁷ Cf. below, pp. 19-20.

⁸ A. Turck. "Aux origines du catéchuménat," in Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques, 48 (1964), pp. 20-31.

⁹ Cf. Acts 16:30; 22:8-10; and Lk 3:10.

¹⁰ Cf. the table in Dujarier, Parrainage des adultes, pp. 391-3.

¹¹ P. Benoit, "Qumrân et le Nouveau Testament," New Testament Studies, 7, 1961, pp. 276-96. The influence of the baptismal practices of Essenism and Judaism is argued by A. Jaubert: "Acts mention that a great number of the priests were obedient to the faith (Acts 6:7). . . . It seems reasonable to admit that [these priests] came from circles that opposed the official orientations and had an affinity with John the Baptist. Thus the ancient Christian community could receive little by little the influx of a long sacerdotal tradition, which was valuable for its liturgical organization." Les Premiers Chrétiens, Paris, 1967. Cf. J. Thomas, Le Mouvement baptiste en Palestine et Syrie (150 av. J.-C.-300 ap. ].-C.), unpublished dissertation, Leuven, 1935.

¹² Josephus, The Jewish War, The Loeb Classical Library 203, translated by H. St. J. Thackery, London, William Heinemann, 1967, p. 375 (Bk II คค137-138).

¹³ Dujarier, Parrainage des adultes, pp. 99-111.

14 Régle 5, 13-14; tr. J. Carmignac, Les Textes de Qumrân, vol. 1, Paris, 1969.

¹⁵ Dujarier, Parrainage des adultes, pp. 73-97.

¹⁶ See also Gerim I, in Dujarier, op. cit., p. 82. Cf. Lk 7,1-10.

¹⁷ See also Gerim I, in Dujarier, op. cit., p. 89. 18 B. Bagatti, L'Eglise de la Circoncision, Jerusalem, 1965, pp. 195-206. To the witnesses mentioned by Bagatti, I would add Justin, "Dialogue with Tryphon," 122.5 and the many others cited by Lampe in A Patristic Greek Lexicon, p. 1171.

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