Ritröð Guðfræðistofnunar - 01.01.1992, Side 44

Bjami Sigurðsson
Pétur Pétursson, Stuttur leiðarvísir til að spyrja börn úr bamalærdómi síra Helga
Hálfdanarsonarprestaskólakennara. Reykjavflc 1878, Akureyri 1888.
Pétur Pétursson, Hann varðveitti þig. Reykjavflc 1988.
Pontoppidan, Eirflcur, Sannleiki guðhræðslunnar... Kaupmannahöfn 1741 nn.
Salmonsens Konversations Leksikon 2. útg. I-XXVI. Kaupmannahöfn 1915-1930.
Sehling, Emil, Die evangelischen Kirchenordnungen des XVI. Jahrhunderts I-VII.
Leipzig og Tubingen 1902-1957.
Sigurður P. Sivertsen, Fimm höfuðjátningar evangelisk-lúterskrar kirkju. Reykjavflc
1925.
Sigurgeir Sigurðsson, Hirðisbtéf til presta og prófasta á íslandi. Reykjavflc 1940.
Su rietta Confirmatio. Hólum 1596.
Valdimar Briem, Kristin bamafræði í ljóðum. Reykjavflc 1906.
Valdimar V. Snævarr, Líf og játning. Akureyri 1953,1954.
Vigfús Jónsson, Vigfúsarspurningar. Agrip af Sanneika guðhræðslunnar.
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Þorsteinn Kristjánsson, Kver til fermingarundirbúnings ungmenna. Reykjavflc 1937.
Summary
This article recounts the history of the practice of confirmation in
Iceland. The author first discusses the attempt of Guðbrandur Þorláksson
(1571-1627), Bishop of Hólar, to re-introduce confirmation to Iceland in
the wake of the Reformation. The author then tums to the decree
conceming confirmation which took effect in Iceland in 1741 after
having first been put into effect in Denmark in 1736; he maintains that
the induction of this decree was one of the most wholesome events of the
18th century in Iceland. Twentieth-century developments are then
discussed, particularly the experimental curriculum for confirmation
courses which was adopted at the 1989 synod of the Church of Iceland.
Finally, the article summarizes the history of catechisms in Iceland, from
the publication in Icelandic (probably in 1562) of Luther's Small
catechism to the present.
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