Animating Liturgy
The Dynamics of Worship and the Human Community
Published on 1. October 2017
200 pages
978-1-910519-56-1 (ISBN)
Description
Liturgy forms both individuals and the community in the faith and life of the Christian gospel. Animating Liturgy invites you to consider the liturgical offering which stands at the heart of the Christian faith. It brings together essays by liturgist Stephen Platten which take us in three main directions:the sacraments, their history and their celebrationliturgical history, study and practicegeneral theological, practical and ethical aspects of liturgyThe essays integrate our understanding and practice of the liturgy and in doing so offer insights to a broad range of readers, from theological students to lay people who wish to understand something of the background of daily and weekly worship.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Durham
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
0,47 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-910519-56-1 (9781910519561)
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10/2017
Sacristy Press
€22.70
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Content
- Intro
- Foreword (Rowan Williams)
- Preface
- 1. Building Sacraments
- 2. In Newness of Life: Eucharistic Living
- 3. The Rites of Christian Initiation
- 4. A Theory of Liturgical Relativity
- 5. Re-animating Sacrifice?
- 6. The Bible, Symbolism and Liturgy
- 7. Liturgical Living: Learning by Mimesis
- 8. All Such Good Works: The Book of Common Prayer and the Fashioning of English Society
- 9. The Uses of Liturgy: Worship Nourishing Mission
- 10. Niebuhr, Liturgy, and Public Theology
- Afterword
