Work with confirmands and the concept of confirmation have undergone a number of changes in recent decades. This study explores the changes that have taken place in the largest Protestant church in Czechia, the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren. With the help of empirical research, it attempts to trace general trends and confronts them with the proposal of a new confirmation liturgy of the ECCB (2023), current theories of confirmation, and the results of European research on confirmation. It concludes by showing the difficulties inherent in trying to reduce confirmation to one core meaning, and recommends that a balance is sought between the subjective and objective as well as theological and anthropological dimensions. Confirmation is both an opportunity to accompany adolescents with intercession and blessing on the journey of faith that began with baptism, and a space where they can respond to it and assume their own religious responsibility.

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确认——人类和神圣行动的空间。捷克世俗变迁过程中的传统仪式

近几十年来，确认物的工作和确认的概念发生了许多变化。这项研究探讨了捷克最大的新教教会——捷克弟兄福音派教会所发生的变化。在实证研究的帮助下，它试图追踪总体趋势，并提出新的确认仪式的建议。欧洲央行（2023），当前的确认理论，以及欧洲确认研究的结果。最后，它展示了试图将确认减少到一个核心意义所固有的困难，并建议在主观和客观以及神学和人类学维度之间寻求平衡。坚振礼既是一个在从洗礼开始的信仰之旅上陪伴青少年代祷和祝福的机会，也是一个他们可以回应洗礼并承担自己宗教责任的空间。