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| Author | : James Hart Brumm |
| Publisher | : Historical Series of the Refor |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
"Worship is central to what it means to be the church, and certainly a Reformed church. It was a chief concern of John Calvin's in Strasbourg and Geneva, a subject addressed by both the Heidelberg Catechism and the Belgic Confession, and central enough to become part of the Constitution of the Reformed Church in America. Liturgy among the Thorns is the first book to examine that history, while seeking to create a framework for discussing the RCA's liturgical future." "Some of the denomination's leading liturgical scholars, including Daniel Meeter, Christopher Dorn, Kathleen Hart Brumm, Dennis TeBeest, Martin Tel, Norman Kansfield, Donald Bruggink, and Paul Janssen, examine various aspects of RCA worship life, including Baptism, the Lord's Supper, congregational song, architecture, and prayer, discuss how these have developed over the past century, and explore how congregations can address this tradition creatively and meaningfully in a time of dramatic and rapid change. Coming in response to Howard Hageman's landmark lectures on the liturgy at Western Theological seminary in 1966 and I. John Hesselink's challenge to the General Synod of 1966, this volume portrays the RCA as being of two minds about its worship and challenges the denomination, after a century of sweeping liturgical transformation, to be in constant dialogue about its worship understanding, to use its varied understandings inventively, and to grow, not into a multiplicity of niche markets, but a church worshipping God together."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Francis De Sales |
| Publisher | : Sophia Institute Press |
| Total Pages | : 129 |
| Release | : 2014-05-06 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1622822072 |
From the thousands of personal letters by St. Francis de Sales comes this short, practical guide that will develop in you the soul-nourishing habits that lead to sanctity. St. Francis de Sales is widely regarded as one of the greatest spiritual advisors in the history of the Church, and we have drawn from his letters the wisest advice for those prepared to take the next step on their spiritual journey. As he did for saints and sinners in his own time, St. Francis de Sales will strengthen your resolve, help you gain small victories over unruly passions, and restore in you a trusting confidence in Jesus Christ. Soon you'll find yourself delivered from the chains of self-love as your soul opens to divine goodness and your heart shaped into a fitting place for Christ to dwell and reign eternally. If you find it difficult to live amid the clamor of the world with your eyes fixed on Christ alone, let St. Francis de Sales teach you how to live as a true rose among thorns
| Author | : Joe Thorn |
| Publisher | : Moody Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 102 |
| Release | : 2017-03-07 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0802494676 |
What should a church do? Look at your church’s calendar and you will learn something of its mission. But how do you know it’s the mission Jesus gave? In The Life of the Church, Joe Thorn explains the mission of the church and the three rhythms for fulfilling it. The result is a simple, memorable model for church life and ministry, grounded in Scripture and aligned with historic practices. Useful for training in membership class, discipleship groups, and elder boards—and even for devotional reading—The Life of the Church is at once theological, practical, and experiential. Readers will not simply be informed, but led to a deeper conviction about their role in the body of Christ. Pastors will be equipped to refocus their ministries, and Christians to fulfill their purpose: be and make disciples. If you wonder what it means to be saved into a body of believers, why the various parts of a worship service matter, and how to engage in the world as a citizen of heaven, then The Life of the Church is for you. It answers this critical question: “Why does the church exist, and how does it shape my life?”
| Author | : Joe Thorn |
| Publisher | : Moody Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 99 |
| Release | : 2017-03-07 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0802494684 |
What does the church believe? Every church has a driving confession, but what is the confession of a true and biblical church? The Heart of the Church answers with the gospel. It explains the story of the gospel, its basic doctrines, and God’s work in salvation. Fresh yet consistent with classic expressions, it helps churches reclaim their essential identity and return from distracting pursuits. Useful for training in membership classes, discipleship groups, and elder boards—and even for devotional reading—The Heart of the Church is at once theological, practical, and experiential. Readers will not simply be informed, but led to believe in, rejoice in, and be transformed by the truth of God for His gathered people. Without the gospel, the church does not exist. This book is Thorn’s full and detailed exploration of the message that is indispensable to the church’s life and identity. For any church lacking power, any Christian feeling dry, or any person seeking truth, The Heart of the Church brings relief, direction, and light, leading to worship.
| Author | : Jane C. Wellford |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2016-07-27 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1498230067 |
What does it mean to be a visual aid in worship? Moving Liturgy: Dance in Christian Worship provides readers with powerful ideas to bring prayers, parables, hymns, and scripture passages to life in the most direct way--storytelling in dance and movement through the body--the best visual aid! This book offers practical and artistic information for anyone interested in learning about, or re-affirming, the use of dance and movement in worship. Jane Wellford has worked extensively in the arts of liturgical dance and drama in collaboration with clergy, musicians, conductors, visual artists, dancers, and entire congregations. Successful ideas for worship, as well as creative possibilities, are all included in this book. I believe that worship should be made multi-sensory, exciting, and as connected to real life experiences as possible. The more senses that are involved in worship, the more likely the message will be received. When we hear the word of God shared through words or music, see it come to life through dance, drama, or other visual arts, experience it through speaking the prayers, confessions, or creeds, and sing it through hymns or chants, we are more actively engaged in the experience of worship.
| Author | : Jean Frédéric Ostervald |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 1712 |
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| Author | : Teresa Berger |
| Publisher | : Liturgical Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2012-12-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0814662765 |
Liturgy migrates. That is, liturgical practices, forms, and materials have migrated and continue to migrate across geographic, ethnic, ecclesial, and chronological boundaries. Liturgy in Migration offers the contributions of scholars who took part in the Yale Institute of Sacred Music's 2011 international liturgy conference on this topic. Presenters explored the nature of liturgical migrations and flows, their patterns, directions, and characteristics. Such migrations are always wrapped in their social and cultural contexts. With this in mind, these essays recalibrate, for the twenty-first century, older work on liturgical inculturation. They allow readers to better understand contemporary liturgical flows in the light of important and fascinating migrations of the past.
| Author | : Aelred of Rievaulx |
| Publisher | : Liturgical Press |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 2022-11-07 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 087907387X |
Aelred (1110–1167) served Rievaulx Abbey, the second Cistercian monastery in England, for twenty years as abbot. During his abbacy he wrote thirteen treatises, some offering spiritual guidance and others seeking to advise King Henry II. He also wrote thirty-one sermons as a commentary on Isaiah 13–16 and 182 surviving liturgical sermons, mostly addressed to his monks. This volume contains the second half of Aelred's ninety-eight liturgical sermons from the Reading-Cluny collection, Sermons 134 through 182, as well as Aelred's sermon for the translation of Saint Edward the Confessor in 1163, from the critical edition by Peter Jackson first published in Cistercian Studies Quarterly. For the most part, the collection follows the liturgical year; this volume begins with a sermon for the birth of John the Baptist and ends with three sermons for the feast of All Saints. It contains sixteen Marian sermons as well as a sermon for the birth of Saint Katherine and a sermon for nuns.
| Author | : William K. Clay |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 733 |
| Release | : 2004-02-13 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1592445527 |
The Parker Society was the London-based Anglican society that printed in fifty-four volumes the works of the leading English Reformers of the sixteenth century. It was formed in 1840 and disbanded in 1855 when its work was completed. Named after Matthew Parker -- the first Elizabethan Archbishop of Canterbury, who was known as a great collector of books -- the stimulus for the foundation of the society was provided by the Tractarian movement, led by John Henry Newman and Edward B. Pusey. Some members of this movement spoke disparagingly of the English Reformation, and so some members of the Church of England felt the need to make available in an attractive form the works of the leaders of that Reformation.
| Author | : Caroline J. Addington Hall |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2013-03-22 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1442219963 |
With the vote to bless same-sex marriages, the Episcopal Church becomes the largest U.S. denomination to officially sanction same-sex relationships. Homosexuality has become a flashpoint at the intersection of religion, family, and politics. A Thorn in the Flesh: How Gay Sexuality is Changing the Episcopal Church tells the story of how homosexuality has been used to further conservative political agendas, both here and abroad. It describes how African and Asian churches have been drawn into a conflict that began in the United States in the Episcopal Church, and raises vital questions of whether people with different understandings of authority and truth can live in harmony. This provocative book is not a history of the movement for gay inclusion, nor a history of the movement for a new, conservative Anglican church in the Americas. Instead, it is a comparison of the conservative and the liberal parts of the church. There are those, such as the Church of England, who have conservative theological orientation and are most likely to oppose fully including gays and lesbians in the church. Hall, also, explores the rapid changes that have happened in Western society in the past fifty years that have led to the acceptance of same-sex marriage and homosexuality. This change has not come easily and even after nearly four decades, gay marriage remains a politically divisive issue in the United States and England.
