Introduction: Confirmation
Spring 2026
Confirmation
Confirmation: The Generative Sacrament
José Granados“In Baptism we are received into the space of the communion of the Church, and in Confirmation we are given the power to extend this space, making it fruitful.”
Illuminating the Christian Logic of Confirmation: A Philosophical Reflection
D.C. Schindler“Confirmation presupposes Baptism, and elevates what is established here to a new mode of being without making it something different.”
Confirmation: Sacrament of Liturgical Determination
Jonathan Martin Ciraulo“What Confirmation ‘adds’ to Baptism, as it were, is not a ratification of Christian maturity or the recognition of catechetical prowess, but the episcopal ‘seal,’ the recognition by the bishop that one’s Baptism binds one not to Christ in a private way, nor to a sect or schism of regional significance, but to the universal Church, the Corpus Mysticum.”
Oedipus, Jesus Christ, and the Christian: Mission as the Framework for a Theology of Confirmation
Ignacio María Díaz“The reaffirmation (confirmation) of baptismal identity is ordered toward the spreading and defense of the faith, that is, toward witness to Jesus Christ in word and deed.”
Endlessly Giving, Already Given: The Logic of Love and the Question of Delaying
Michael Joseph Higgins“Love is a paradox: it is already complete from the beginning, and it continuously unfolds without end.”
Rival Versions of Dante and Theologies of Beauty: Hans Urs von Balthasar and Pierre Mandonnet
George Corbett“Dante demonstrates how the very scholastic pursuit of wisdom can be a way of beauty, a via pulchritudinis, because truth is supremely beautiful, giving supreme delight.”
The Antlitz of Beatrice: Dantean Theodramatics in Balthasar’s Marian Ecclesiology
John Nepil“A woman’s Antlitz reveals the inner theodramatic mystery of the feminine, and thereby the face of the Marian Church.”