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Author | : Nicholas Heron |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2017-11-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0823278700 |
Is Christianity exclusively a religious phenomenon, which must separate itself from all things political, or do its concepts actually underpin secular politics? To this question, which animated the twentieth-century debate on political theology, Liturgical Power advances a third alternative. Christian anti-politics, Heron contends, entails its own distinct conception of politics. Yet this politics, he argues, assumes the form of what today we call “administration,” but which the ancients termed “economics.” The book’s principal aim is thus genealogical: it seeks to understand our current conception of government in light of an important but rarely acknowledged transformation in the idea of politics brought about by Christianity. This transformation in the idea of politics precipitates in turn a concurrent shift in the organization of power; an organization whose determining principle, Heron contends, is liturgy—understood in the broad sense as “public service.” Whereas until now only liturgy’s acclamatory dimension has made the concept available for political theory, Heron positions it more broadly as a technique of governance. What Christianity has bequeathed to political thought and forms, he argues, is thus a paradoxical technology of power that is grounded uniquely in service.
Author | : Jonathan A. Stapley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0190844434 |
A church's liturgy is its ritualized system of worship, the services and patterns in which believers regularly participate. While the term often refers to a specific formal ritual like the Roman Catholic Mass, events surrounding major life events--birth, coming of age, marriage, death--are often celebrated through church liturgies. By documenting and analyzing Mormon liturgical history, Jonathan Stapley is able to explore the nuances of Mormon belief and practice. More important, he can demonstrate that the Mormon ordering of heaven and earth is not a mere philosophical or theological exercise. The Power of Godliness is the first work to establish histories for these unique liturgies and to provide interpretive frameworks for them.
Author | : Flanagan, Brian P. |
Publisher | : Orbis Books |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2017-05-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1608336824 |
Author | : David N. Power |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2008-07-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1606080148 |
This study has two aims. The first is to relate studies on symbolism and its modes to an understanding of the liturgy. The second is to relate these studies to the renewal of the liturgy in a time of crisis. Since the first aim is affected by the second, it may be well to say something about the nature of the crisis at this point . . . The crisis as it touches on liturgy is twofold. First there is a crisis of vision and second a crisis of hope. The churches are forced to ask how well the vision of reality, or the world view, projected in liturgical celebration expresses a sense of being in time and a sense of the holy that are pertinent to contemporary fact and contemporary models of reality. This is the crisis of vision. At the same time, the churches are part of a humanity which lives in a time of disintegration and destruction, a humanity continually compelled to consider whether there are any hopes by which it is possible to face the future. The despair of the age is represented in the twofold holocaust of the century. There is the holocaust of the Jewish people under the Nazi regime, and there is the imminent nuclear holocaust which threatens the entire world. Can those who profess faith in Jesus Christ profess it in such an age? --from the Introduction
Author | : NICHOLAS. HERON |
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ISBN | : 9780823280537 |
Author | : Ricky Manalo |
Publisher | : Liturgical Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2014-12-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0814663338 |
Everyday worship practices—from praying the rosary to moments of recognizing the beauty of God's creation, from being moved by the power of music to praying Vespers on an iPad—not only take place at different locations and during different days of the week but also dynamically interact with one another. The Liturgy of Life examines the interrelationship between the practice of Sunday Eucharist and the many nonofficial worship practices that mark the everyday lives of Christians who continually negotiate the boundaries of official teaching on liturgy. Drawing on the writings of theologians and sociologists of lived religion and data from an ethnographic research project, this timely work stretches the contextual horizon of liturgical scholarship and presents a provocative and dynamic paradigm of Christian worship for the twenty-first century.
Author | : Warren T. Woodfin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2012-01-19 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0199592098 |
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.
Author | : Susan Marie Smith |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1451424450 |
Caregiving practices in churches often center around listening and giving counsel, making referrals, and creating support groups for specific needs. In Caring Liturgies, Susan Marie Smith proposes that Christian ritual is both a method and a means for helping people through liminal times of transition and uncertainty, even vulnerability and fear. This volume teaches readers to recognize the ritual needs of fellow Christians and thus create post-baptismal rites of passage and healing that might strengthen and support them in the fulfillment of their ministries. The book extends the usefulness of denominational "occasional services" books and other resources by suggesting ways to build a rite around a central symbolic action, pointing out issues of ritual honesty and ethics, and identifying skills and attributes necessary to preparing and leading a rite. Numerous narrative examples help to flesh out the principles and illustrate the key argument: that rituals are necessary means to enable human growth and maturity, both through times of suffering and times of transition, and that ritual-making leaders are central to the ongoing health of the church.
Author | : Herman Schmidt |
Publisher | : Herder & Herder |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Series statement also appears as: The New concilium. Includes bibliographical references.
Author | : Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520383168 |
During the fourth century a.d., theological controversy divided Christian communities throughout the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. At stake was not only the truth about God but also the authority of church leaders, whose legitimacy depended on their claims to represent that truth. In this book, Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho argues that out of these disputes was born a new style of church leadership, one in which the power of the episcopal office was greatly increased. He shows how these disputes compelled church leaders repeatedly to assert their orthodoxy and legitimacy—tasks that required them to mobilize their congregations and engage in action that continuously projected their power in the public arena. These developments were largely the work of prelates of the first half of the fourth century, but the style of command they inaugurated became the basis for a dynamic model of ecclesiastical leadership found throughout late antiquity.