Biblical and Patristic Catechesis

Aasgaard, Reidar. “Ambrose and Augustine: Two Bishops on Baptism and Christian Identity.” In Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism: Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity, vol. 2, edited by David Hellholm, et al., 1253–1282. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011.

Arnold, Clinton E. “Early Christian Catechesis and New Christians’ Classes in Contemporary Evangelicalism.” JETS 47, no. 1 (March 2004): 39–54.

Bradshaw, Paul F. “The Gospel and the Catechumenate in the Third Century.” Journal of Theological Studies 50 (1999).

Danielou, Jean. The Bible and the Liturgy. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame, 1956.

Daniélou, Jean. La catéchèse aux premiers siècles. Paris: Fayard-Mame, 1968.

Dujarier, Michel. A History of the Catechumenate: The First Six Centuries. New York: William H. Sadlier Inc., 1979.

Dunning, James. “The Period of Mystagogy.” In Christian Initiation Reader. Vol. 4. Mystagogy and Ministries, 7–18. New York: William H. Sadlier, Inc., 1984.

Edsall, Benjamin. The Reception of Paul and Early Christian Initiation: History and Hermeneutics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Ferguson, Everett. “Psalm-Singing at the Eucharist: A Liturgical Controversy in the Fourth Century.” Austin Seminary Bulletin 98 (1983): 52–77.

Ferguson, Everett. “Conversion and Initiation.” In The Origins of Christendom in the West, edited by Alan Kreider, 229–268. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2001.

Ferguson, Everett. “Irenaeus of Lyon's Proof of the Apostolic Preaching.” In The Early Church at Work and Worship, 1–17. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2014.

Finn, Thomas. M. Early Christian Baptism and the Catechumenate: Italy, North Africa, and Egypt. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1992.

Finn, Thomas. Early Christian Baptism and the Catechumenate: West and East Syria. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1992.

Finn, Thomas. From Death to Rebirth: Ritual and Conversion in Antiquity. New York: Paulist Press, 1997.

Finn, Thomas. “It Happened One Saturday Night: Ritual and Conversion in Augustine’s North Africa.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 58 (1990): 589–616.

Folkemer, Lawrence D. “A Study of the Catechumenate.” In Studies in Early Christianity: A Collection of Scholarly Essays, vol. 11: Conversion, Catechumenate, and Baptism in the Early Church, edited by E. F. Ferguson. New York: Garland, 1993.

Frank, Georgia. “‘Taste and See’: The Eucharist and the Eyes of Faith in the Fourth Century.” Church History 70, no. 4 (2001): 619-43.

Gavrilyuk, Paul L. Histoire du catéchuménat dans l’église ancienne. Translated by F. Lhoest, N. Mojaisky, A.-M. Gueit. Initiations aux Pères de l’Église. Paris: Cerf, 2007.

Grant, Robert. “The Development of the Christian Catechumenate.” In Made, Not Born: New Perspectives on Christian Initiation and the Catechumenate, 32–50. Notre Dame, IN: Liturgical Studies, 1976.

Grundeken, Mark. “Baptism and Μετάνοια in the Shepherd of Hermas.” In Early Christian Communities between Ideal and Reality, ed. Mark Grundeken and Joseph Verheyden, WUNT I/342 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015).

Harmless, William. Augustine and the Catechumenate. 1995. Revised Edition. Collegeville, MD: Liturgical Press, 2014.

Jackson, Pamela. “Ambrose of Milan as Mystagogue.” Augustinian Studies 20 (1989): 96–107.

Jackson, Pamela. “Cyril of Jerusalem’s Use of Scripture in Catechesis.” Theological Studies 52 (1991): 431–50.

Johnson, Maxwell E. “Christian Initiation.” In The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Johnson, Maxwell E. ed. Living Water, Sealing Spirit. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1995.

Johnson, Maxwell E. The Rites of Christian Initiation: Their Evolution and Interpretation. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2007.

Jones, L. Gregory. “Baptism: A Dramatic Journey into God’s Dazzling Light: Baptismal Catechesis and the Shaping of Christian Practical Wisdom.” In Knowing the Triune God, ed. by J. J. Buckley and D. S. Yeago, 147–77. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001.

Kreider, Alan. “Baptism, Catechism and the Eclipse of Jesus’ Teaching in Early Christianity.” Tyndale Bulletin 47, no. 2 (1996): 315–348.

Kreider, Alan. The Change of Conversion and the Origin of Christendom. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2007.

Louth, Andrew. “Fiunt, Non Nascuntur Christiani: Conversion, Community, and Christian Identity in Late Antiquity.” In Being Christian in Late Antiquity: A Festschrift for Gillian Clark, edited by Carol Harrison, Caroline Humfress, and Isabella Sandwell, 109–118. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Lupi, J. “Catechetical Instruction in the Church of the First Two Centuries.” Melita Theologica (1956).

Mazza, Enrico. Mystagogy: A Theology of Liturgy in the Patristic Age. Translated by Matthew J. O’Connell. New York: Pueblo Publishing Company, 1989.

Meconi, David Vincent. “Becoming Gods by becoming God’s: Augustine’s Mystagogy of Identification.” Augustinian Studies 39, no. 1 (2008).

Paliard, Charles. “The Place of Catechesis in the Catechumenate.” In Adult Baptism and the Catechumenate, ed. Johannes Wagner. New York: Paulist, 1967.

Pignot, Matthieu. The Catechumenate in Late Antique Africa (4th-6th Century): Augustine of Hippo, His Contemporaries and Early Reception. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Riley, Hugh M. Christian Initiation: A Comparative Study of the Interpretation of the Baptismal Liturgy in the Mystagogical Writings of Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom, Theodore of Mopsuestia, and Ambrose of Milan. Washington, D.C.: Consortium Press, 1974.

Satterlee, Craig Alan. Ambrose of Milan’s Method of Mystagogical Preaching. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2002.

Sittser, Gerald. “The Catechumenate and the Rise of Christianity.” The Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 6, no. 2 (Fall 2013): 179–203. Appears in modified form as Chapter 9 (pp. 155-172) of Resilient Faith: How the Early Christian “Third Way” Changed the World. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2019.

Spinks, Bryan D. Early and Medieval Rituals and Theologies of Baptism: From the New Testament to the Council of Trent. Liturgy, Worship and Society Series. New edition. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.

Stewart-Sykes, Alistair. “Catechumenate and Contra-Culture: The Social Process of Catechumenate in Third-Century Africa and Its Development.” St. Vladimir’s Quarterly 47 (2003): 129–40.

Taft, Robert F. Through Their Own Eyes: Liturgy as the Byzantines Saw It. Berkeley, CA: InterOrthodox Press, 2006.

Van Geest, Paul, ed. Seeing through the Eyes of Faith: New Approaches to the Mystagogy of the Church Fathers. Leuven: Peeters, 2016.

Voprada, David. Quodvultdeus: a Bishop Forming Christians in Vandal Africa: A Contextual Analysis of the Pre-baptismal Sermons attributed to Quodvultdeus of Carthage. Leiden: Brill, 2019.

Williams, D. H. "Considering Catechism for Suspicious Protestants." In Catechism, a volume of Christian Reflection: A Series in Faith and Ethics (2007).

Wilken, Robert. “Alexandria: A School for Training in Virtue.” In Schools of Thought in the Christian Tradition, edited by Patrick Henry, 15–30. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984.

*Yarnold, Edward. The Awe-Inspiring Rites of Initiation: The Origin of the R.C.I.A. 2nd ed. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1994.

Yarnold, Edward. The Awe-Inspiring Rites of Initiation: Baptismal Homilies of the Fourth Century. Slough, Great Britain: St. Paul Publications. 1971.