In a message dated 8/29/2003 4:11:06 PM Central Daylight Time, 
gdvw@... writes:

<< Daniel:authentic Orthodox friends say but ifit pleases you to hold
 another view, I'llnot launchthe XXXXXIII Crusade over it. Theimportant
 thing is to infuse the objective grace that this Sacrament brings. I
 would be interested in your sources for your view. I'll share them with
 my Eastern comrades when the next FKDDG meets.  >>

DKD:  IMO, the most definitive recent study on Christian Initiation is 
Maxwell Johnson's _The Rites of Christian Initiation: Their Evolution and 
Interpretation_ (Liturgical Press, 1989).  Johnson is Lutheran and is Associate 
Professor of Liturgy at University of Notre Dame.  I studied for a semester under his 
colleague, James White, when I was at Drew University.

Regards,
Daniel