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Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich (Religion in History, Society and Culture #Vol. 4)

The nineteenth century was a period of intense religious conflict across Europe, as people confronted the major changes brought by modernity. In Zurich, one phase of this religious conflict was played out in a struggle over revisions to the ritual of baptism. In its analysis of the Zurich conflict, Liturgy Wars offers a strategy for understanding the links between theology, ritual, and socio-politics. Theodore M. Vial offers a new perspective on contemporary ritual studies - and critiques the cognivist approaches of Lawson and McCauley, as well as Catherine Bell's analysis of power and the body - by reintergrating the imporatance of speech acts into considerations of ritual.

Liturgy and Architecture: From the Early Church to the Middle Ages (Liturgy, Worship and Society Series)

In this book Allan Doig explores the interrelationship of liturgy and architecture from the Early Church to the close of the Middle Ages, taking into account social, economic, technical, theological and artistic factors. These are crucial to a proper understanding of ecclesiastical architecture of all periods, and together their study illuminates the study of liturgy. Buildings and their archaeology are standing indices of human activity, and the whole matrix of meaning they present is highly revealing of the larger meaning of ritual performance within, and movement through, their space. The excavation of the mid-third-century church at Dura Europos in the Syrian desert, the grandeur of Constantine's Imperial basilicas, the influence of the great pilgrimage sites, and the marvels of soaring Gothic cathedrals, all come alive in a new way when the space is animated by the liturgy for which they were built. Reviewing the most recent research in the area, and moving the debate forward, this study will be useful to liturgists, clergy, theologians, art and architectural historians, and those interested in the conservation of ecclesiastical structures built for the liturgy.

Liturgy and Society in Early Medieval Rome (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West)

The liturgy, the public worship of the Catholic Church, was a crucial factor in forging the society of early medieval Rome. As the Roman Empire dissolved, a new world emerged as Christian bishops stepped into the power vacuum left by the dismantling of the Empire. Among these potentates, none was more important than the bishop of Rome, the pope. The documents, archaeology, and architecture that issued forth from papal Rome in the seventh and eighth centuries preserve a precious glimpse into novel societal patterns. The underexploited liturgical sources in particular enrich and complicate our historical understanding of this period. They show how liturgy was the ’social glue’ that held together the Christian society of early medieval Rome - and excluded those who did not belong to it. This study places the liturgy center stage, filling a gap in research on early medieval Rome and demonstrating the utility of investigating how the liturgy functioned in medieval Europe. It includes a detailed analysis of the papal Mass, the central act of liturgy and the most obvious example of the close interaction of liturgy, social relations and power. The first extant Mass liturgy, the First Roman Ordo, is also given a new presentation in Latin here with an English translation and commentary. Other grand liturgical events such as penitential processions are also examined, as well as more mundane acts of worship. Far from a pious business with limited influence, the liturgy established an exchange between humans and the divine that oriented Roman society to God and fostered the dominance of the clergy.

Liturgy and the Beauty of the Unknown: Another Place

Contemporary culture is rediscovering the importance of beauty for both social transformation and personal happiness. Theologians have sought, in their varied ways, to demonstrate how God's beauty is associated with notions of truth and goodness. This book breaks new ground by suggesting that liturgy is the means par excellence by which an experience of beauty is communicated. Drawing from both secular and religious understandings, in particular the mystical and apophatic tradition, the book demonstrates how liturgy has the potential to achieve the one ultimately reliable form of beauty because its embodied components are able to reflect the disturbing beauty of the One to whom worship is always offered. Such components rely on understanding the aesthetic dynamics upon which liturgy relies. This book draws from a broad range of disciplines concerned with understanding beauty and self-transformation and concludes that while secular utopian forms have much to contribute to ethical transformation, they ultimately fail since they lack the Christological and eschatological framework needed, which liturgy alone provides.

Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium: Compunction and Hymnody

This book explores the liturgical experience of emotions in Byzantium through the hymns of Romanos the Melodist, Andrew of Crete and Kassia. It reimagines the performance of their hymns during Great Lent and Holy Week in Constantinople. In doing so, it understands compunction as a liturgical emotion, intertwined with paradisal nostalgia, a desire for repentance and a wellspring of tears. For the faithful, liturgical emotions were embodied experiences that were enacted through sacred song and mystagogy. The three hymnographers chosen for this study span a period of nearly four centuries and had an important connection to Constantinople, which forms the topographical and liturgical nexus of the study. Their work also covers three distinct genres of hymnography: kontakion, kanon and sticheron idiomelon. Through these lenses of period, place and genre this study examines the affective performativity hymns and the Byzantine experience of compunction.

Liturgy in Postcolonial Perspectives

This book brings Christian, Jewish and Muslim scholars from different fields of knowledge and many places across the globe to introduce/expand the dialogue between the field of liturgy and postcolonial/decolonial thinking. Connecting main themes in both fields, this book shows what is at stake in this dialectical scholarship.

Liturgy in the Age of Reason: Worship and Sacraments in England and Scotland 1662–c.1800

Worship has always been affected by its surrounding culture. This book examines the changing perspectives in and discussions on worship styles and practices from the Restoration to the death of Wesley, in England and Scotland. Moving beyond the text, Spinks grounds the discussion within the changing cultural and intellectual framework of the period referred to as the Enlightenment. The focus is the end of the early modern period, when already the upheaval of the English Civil War, the methods of the Cambridge Platonists, and the thinking of Descartes and Spinoza were making the period one of transition, and Newtonian thought and the thought of John Locke impacted theological thought and worship forms. It is against this framework that the worship in England and Scotland will be described and assessed. As well as published and unpublished liturgical documents, this book draws on contemporary accounts and descriptions of worship, catechisms, sermons and theological works, and contemporary diaries. Musical and architectural changes are also noted, particularly the late seventeenth century hymns of Richard Davies of Rothwell, Joseph Stennett and Benjamin Keach. This book places worship in the society which it served, and from which changes sprang. It explores the interaction of cultural thought and worship, drawing parallels between the Enlightenment period and problems of late modernity and the worship wars of the late twentieth century.

Liturgy in the Wilderness: How The Lord's Prayer Shapes The Imagination Of The Church In A Secular Age

Liturgy in the Wilderness: How the Lord's Prayer Shapes the Imagination of the Church in a Secular Age

What you pray . . . shapes what you believe . . . shapes how you live. The Lord&’s Prayer is a beautiful, subversive passage of words given to the church by Jesus. It forms our imaginations and—given time—transforms us. And today, we are in desperate need of renewed imaginations. Christians are living in a wilderness of secularism. The historic Christian faith is seen as absurd at best and dangerously oppressive at worst. Followers of Jesus must begin to imagine life as a faithful minority who are ever seeking to subvert what is evil with good, what is hateful with love, what is corrosive with nurture.In Liturgy in the Wilderness, Anglican priest D. J. Marotta shows how the Lord&’s Prayer provides a framework in our secular age for understanding, believing, and living in light of Jesus Christ. When we pray the Lord&’s Prayer, we&’re planting seeds that can split concrete. We&’re dripping water that can wear away granite. We&’re shifting spiritual tectonic plates that lie deep beneath culture, society, and the depths of our own hearts. When we pray the Lord&’s Prayer, our imaginations are stirred, moved, and transformed. We&’re taken apart and put back together. We&’re stripped of our idols, addictions, and false hopes. We&’re offered new words of trust and mission. And we begin to see the world differently—the way Jesus saw it.With this book, Marotta awakens our hearts to the beauty, sustaining power, and bounty of the Lord&’s Prayer and shows us how to live faithfully in the wilderness.

Liturgy in the Wilderness: How the Lord's Prayer Shapes the Imagination of the Church in a Secular Age

What you pray . . . shapes what you believe . . . shapes how you live. The Lord&’s Prayer is a beautiful, subversive passage of words given to the church by Jesus. It forms our imaginations and—given time—transforms us. And today, we are in desperate need of renewed imaginations. Christians are living in a wilderness of secularism. The historic Christian faith is seen as absurd at best and dangerously oppressive at worst. Followers of Jesus must begin to imagine life as a faithful minority who are ever seeking to subvert what is evil with good, what is hateful with love, what is corrosive with nurture.In Liturgy in the Wilderness, Anglican priest D. J. Marotta shows how the Lord&’s Prayer provides a framework in our secular age for understanding, believing, and living in light of Jesus Christ. When we pray the Lord&’s Prayer, we&’re planting seeds that can split concrete. We&’re dripping water that can wear away granite. We&’re shifting spiritual tectonic plates that lie deep beneath culture, society, and the depths of our own hearts. When we pray the Lord&’s Prayer, our imaginations are stirred, moved, and transformed. We&’re taken apart and put back together. We&’re stripped of our idols, addictions, and false hopes. We&’re offered new words of trust and mission. And we begin to see the world differently—the way Jesus saw it.With this book, Marotta awakens our hearts to the beauty, sustaining power, and bounty of the Lord&’s Prayer and shows us how to live faithfully in the wilderness.

Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year Winner - Spirtual Formation Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year - Beautiful Orthodoxy In the overlooked moments and routines of our day, we can become aware of God's presence in surprising ways. How do we embrace the sacred in the ordinary and the ordinary in the sacred? Framed around one ordinary day, this book explores daily life through the lens of liturgy, small practices, and habits that form us. Each chapter looks at something—making the bed, brushing her teeth, losing her keys—that the author does every day. Drawing from the diversity of her life as a campus minister, Anglican priest, friend, wife, and mother, Tish Harrison Warren opens up a practical theology of the everyday. Each activity is related to a spiritual practice as well as an aspect of our Sunday worship. Come and discover the holiness of your every day.

Liturgy with Style and Grace

This book contains concise sections about the Mass, the sacraments, and the seasons of the Church's year suitable for individual and group study.

Live 10 Healthy Years Longer

Discover the Live Longer Lifestyle—a plan for reducing disease risk based on the famed twenty-five-year Loma Linda health study.In Live 10 Healthy Years Longer, biostatician Dr. Jan Kuzma and Cecil Murphey make a startling connection between the spiritual and physical realms of our lives. After an in-depth twenty-five-year study involving more than 27,000 participants, they discovered an amazing medical breakthrough that offers each of us the potential to live longer, healthier and happier lives. The “live longer lifestyle,” based on Kuzma’s years of research in longevity, presents practical suggestions for reducing heart disease and cancer, losing weight, increasing vitality, enjoying life, and faithfully caring for the body that God has given each of us.

Live 10: Jump-Start the Best Version of Your Life

Listen. Listen carefully. Listen with your heart. Hear God calling to you. He wants your God-inspired dreams to come true. He wants you to help make His world all He knows it can be. He is for you. Cheering for you. And if God is for us, how can we do anything but believe that our best possible future is within our grasp?Pastor and leadership expert Terry A. Smith has seen the transformation. From fear-based hesitation to faith-based confidence. From conventional, not-quite-fulfilling life to proactive, best, abundant life. It is possible for you. But Smith is not asking you to take his word for it. From the Old Testament to Jesus, from Augustine to John Calvin to Eugene Peterson, from Peter Drucker to Seth Godin, Smith has assembled a dazzling host of stories and ideas to support his proposition: We are each called to reach our full potential, to marshal all our resources and step out in faith. We can Live Ten, and it will not just change us; it will change the world.

Live Again: Leader Guide

This is the companion Live Again Leader Guide to the Live Again: Wholeness After Divorce 8-Session DVD series. This divorce recovery leader guide has everything a leader needs! From tips on how to start each session to riveting discussion questions, this leader guide makes leading an after divorce recovery group easier than ever. This guide covers all 8 sessions of Live Again, the only Christian divorce recovery program design for women. Whether you are a veteran divorce recovery leader, or new to leading women's divorce recovery groups, this Live Again Leader Guide will walk you through the basics of how to run the group each session. But the best part is the Tips for Divorce Recovery Group leaders in the back of the Leader Guide.8 Key Topics in Live Again Help Women Find Recovery After DivorceThis 8-video Christian divorce recovery series covers topics such as loneliness, forgiveness, fear, picking up the pieces, relationships, and moving past the shame and guilt to healing and wholeness. Topics in the Live Again: Wholeness After Divorce DVD - Home Edition* Session 1 - Reality Check: Acceptance* Session 2 - Forgiveness* Session 3 - The Loneliness Giant* Session 4 - The Real Enemy: Lies Women Believe* Session 5 - Respect Yourself* Session 6 - Sexless and Single: Sex and Dating* Session 7 - Beyond the Shame and Guilt* Session 8 - Discovering a Whole New You

Live Again: Participant Guide

This is the companion participant guide for the Live Again: Wholeness After Divorce 8-Session DVD series. With additional discussion questions, inspiring quotes, and life-giving scripture verses, this participant guide will help women find the peace, wholeness, and healing they are searching for as they journey through this after divorce recovery program. This guide covers all 8 sessions of Live Again, the only Christian divorce recovery program just for women. New! Find Hope and Healing After a DivorceWhen a tragic divorce destroys a family, many women find theirhopes and dreams shattered. For many, this is thegreatest loss they have ever faced. It devastates them, and they desperately need emotional and spiritual help. They struggle with lonelinessand shame. Many of them need to face the pain and begin to forgivethemselves and others in order to move forward in life.The good news is that a recent study showed that Christian faith madea big difference in divorcees' ability to put their life back togetherand successfully live with hope and purpose. In fact, Christiansrecovered nearly 3 times better than people having "no religion." Theywere able to live again because of their faith and trust in the Lord!This 8-session Christian divorce recovery series covers topics such asloneliness, forgiveness, fear, picking up the pieces, dating, and movingpast the shame and guilt to healing and wholeness. The complete kitcomes with a DVD containing the eight 30-minute videos, a LeaderGuide, 5 Participant guides, and 5 Live Again Journals. Additional Participant Guides and Live Again Journals may be purchased separately.

Live Before You Die: Wake up to God's Will for Your Life

Would you like to know God’s will more clearly? You want to follow to God’s will--but sometimes knowing what that is seems hard to figure out. Here at last is a straightforward approach to being able to recognize God’s will in your life, to know with more certainty the good things He has for you, what he wants you to do and how you can live your life with more purpose, joy, significance and blessing. Daniel Kolenda has been actively serving the Lord since he was a teen. God has given him keen insights through Scripture and his own experiences that will help you discover and follow God’s will. You’ll discover practical truths that will enable you hear His voice with more clarity and be able to make important decisions with more confidence and assurance. Start living in a way that lines up with God’s favor. He WANTS TO BLESS YOU! With advice that is both practical and inspiring Daniel reveals: · Five secrets to discovering God’s will · How to start moving in the right direction · What to do when God says wait · How to stay in the will of God He also answers the following questions: · How do I recognize God's will? · What if God calls me to do something I don't want to do? · What if I’ve already missed the will of God? · If I encounter resistance, does that mean I'm out of God's will? · How do I get from where I am now to where God wants me to be? · What should I do now while seeking God's will? · What if I’ve been waiting for a long time? · How do I stay in the will of God? Whether your journey takes you to the mission field or medical school...whether you become a construction worker, stay-at-home mom, businessman, teacher, chef, or pastor...YOU can experience the wonder of God’s will for your life and live His adventure for you. It’s time to go for it!

Live Better: A Book of Spiritual Guidance

Your spiritual journey can take many forms, and it’s important to choose the path that’s right for you. This handbook will introduce you to traditions and practices with the power to open your heart and broaden your mind. Along with practical tips and enlightening quotes, the insights here are stepping stones towards a better life.

Live Better: A Book of Spiritual Guidance

Your spiritual journey can take many forms, and it’s important to choose the path that’s right for you. This handbook will introduce you to traditions and practices with the power to open your heart and broaden your mind. Along with practical tips and enlightening quotes, the insights here are stepping stones towards a better life.

Live Beyond: A Radical Call to Surrender and Serve

What would compel a successful surgeon to give up his practice in affluent Brentwood, Tennessee, to move to Haiti and serve the poorest of the poor?The catastrophic earthquake that devasted Haiti in 2010 was the motivation that Dr. David Vanderpool needed to completely change his life to follow the call of Jesus. For several years, he and his wife, Laurie, had been asking each other a daily question: What did you do yesterday that required faith? God&’s call to Dr. David Vanderpool&’s was so powerful that he organized medical and logistical relief to help the hundreds of thousands of desperate Haitians?suffering people with no water, food, or shelter, much less medical care. But it didn&’t stop there. The Vanderpools sold everything—surgical practice, home, belongings—to bring much-needed medical care to the people of Haiti. They established a nonprofit, LiveBeyond, to empower the impoverished. Today, its work continues with basic needs such as nutrition and water, in addition to health care, education, and agricultural assistance. The goal: achieve sustainable communities, beginning with the home base of Thomazeau, Haiti. The inspirational true stories of LiveBeyond&’s work in Haiti will lead you to ask yourself, What did I do yesterday that required faith? And maybe do something about it.

Live Big!

Discover and Live the Dream God Has for You Disillusioned by dreams that haven't become realities? Have you settled for life as it is instead of life as you hoped it would be? You need to know -- and believe -- that God designed you to dream. And there's no better day than today to begin discovering God's best plan for you. The only wrong way to dream is to let your dream stagnate without taking action. And in this book, you will learn what those action steps are and how to bring your dreams to life. Life coach Katie Brazelton shares ten coaching tips and forty action steps, as well as true stories of modern-day women, Bible character parallels, inspirational quotes, scriptures, and prayers. In other words, this book is jam-packed with information and tips that will empower you beyond your wildest imagination as you Live Big! It's never too late to act on your dreams.

Live Bodies

A novel in which a retired businessman, Josef Mandl looks at his past: battling the Nazis in Vienna, interned as an enemy alien in New Zealand, rebuilding his life after the war with his wife Nancy. Gee explores themes of loss and dispossession of family, friendship, and love.

Live Brave: Devotions, Recipes, Experiments, and Projects for Every Brave Girl (Brave Girls)

Loaded with Bible verses, prayer starters, recipes, crafts, and other hands-on projects, this devotional pulls preteen girls closer to God while providing them fun, age-appropriate activities to help them live out a brave life.Each of the brand-new 90 devotions in Live Brave features a passage written from the perspective of one of the popular Brave Girls characters--Hope, Glory, Faith, Gracie, and Honor--along with a Scripture and prayer. Each devotion is designed to help girls learn to trust God's character and act out His goodness.In addition to this meaningful spiritual content, Live Brave includes prompts for over 30 enriching activities. From baking and science experiments to crafts and service projects, girls will have a blast, grow in faith, help others--and get a little messy along the way. The Brave Girls characters invite tween readers to join them in . . .planting a treecooking pita pizzasstarting a neighborhood small jobs businessdrawing Scripture word artbuilding a solar oven (and baking s'mores!)making a journal jarhosting a school-supply drivecrafting paper-plate gift basketsand more!Every family is different, so each activity is adaptable for either a solo adventure or group bonding. You'll love the creative, budget-friendly ideas for friend and family time.Written in a voice that emulates a contemporary adolescent girl, this interactive, high-energy devotional helps preteens take ownership of their spiritual journey. Girls will practice everyday bravery and grow in godly character as they take their faith off the page and into the world.

Live Brilliantly: A Study in the Book of 1 John

This all-new Fresh Life Bible study takes readers through the book of 1 John, inspiring them to respond to God’s call to be light bearers in a dark world. Each 20-minute study of 1 John in Live Brilliantly reminds readers that when their lives reflect God’s light, no darkness can overtake them. When a Christian follows God’s Word, light shines on their decisions, relationships, and actions. Their words as they live out the gospel bring light to even the darkest places. This rich yet accessible Bible study ignites readers with a new passion for God, shutting out the darkness that threatens their spirits and the world—because God’s Word is light everlasting.

Live Christ! Give Christ!

Discover the rich tradition of Pauline spirituality in this first-time-ever-in-print collection of prayers by Blessed James Alberione, the founder of the Pauline family, and by other contemporary Paulines. A valuable edition for anyone desiring to thrive in the living out of their Catholic faith, Live Christ! Give Christ! features prayers for facing the challenges of life and for all aspects of evangelization. The collection includes the Our Secret of Success prayer featured in the movie, Media Apostle: The Father James Alberione Story.