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Books > Christianity > Christian life & practice > Christian sacraments
From time to time, a rare monument will appear in some archives,
filling the gap in previous research. Such a "discovery" was the
identification of a hitherto unnoticed manuscript from Bratislava
as a medieval missal associated with the cathedral in Lund. From
the given period, it is the only complete manuscript that documents
the liturgical and musical tradition of the Archdiocese of Lund. In
the first part of the publication, the authors present the results
of their research in the field of codicology, musical paleography,
as well as musicological and liturgical analyses and comparisons.
The second part consists of facsimiles with registers of songs,
lessons, and prayers. This book aims to initiate further research
into the medieval liturgy in Scandinavia and Europe as a whole.
This book explores sacramental poetics through the lens of moderate
realism in the thought and work of Anglican theologians Richard
Hooker (c. 1554-1600) and George Herbert (1593-1648). It does this
in relation to the Christian sacraments of baptism and the
Eucharist and as a way of exploring the abundance of God. Brian
Douglas begins in chapter 1 with a general discussion of a
sacramental poetic and sacramentality in the Anglican tradition and
proceeds to a more detailed examination of the writings of both
Hooker (chapter 2) and Herbert (chapter 3). Each writer explores,
in their own way, abundant life, found as participation in and
relationship with Christ, and expressed as a sacramental poetic
based on moderate realism. Douglas goes on in chapter 4 to explore
the idea of conversation and dialogue as employed by Hooker and
Herbert as part of a sacramental poetic. The book concludes in
chapter 5 with a more general discussion on the abundance of God
and living of the good and abundant life and some of the issues
this involves in the modern world.
Based on a constructive reading of Scripture, the apostolic and
patristic traditions and deeply rooted in the sacramental
experience and spiritual ethos of the Orthodox Church, John
Zizioulas offers a timely anthropological and cosmological
perspective of human beings as "priests of creation" in addressing
the current ecological crisis. Given the critical and urgent
character of the global crisis and by adopting a clear line of
argumentation, Zizioulas describes a vision based on a
compassionate and incarnational conception of the human beings as
liturgical beings, offering creation to God for the life of the
world. He encourages the need for deeper interaction with modern
science, from which theology stands to gain an appreciation of the
interconnection of every aspect of materiality and life with
humankind. The result is an articulate and promising vision that
inspires a new ethos, or way of life, to overcome our alienation
from the rest of creation.
There is miraculous power in the sacrament of communion.
More than a religious ritual, communion is a doorway into untapped realms of God's glory and miracle-working power.
In this 40-day prayer and devotional experience, Beni and Bill Johnson take you on a prayer journey through the Lord's supper as it is revealed in Scripture.
Discover communion as...
- A sacred place of intimacy with God.
- A weapon of spiritual warfare.
- A prophetic act that creates dynamic change.
- A catalyst for total healing.
Join Beni and Bill Johnson on this journey of rediscovery, and open yourself to a powerful encounter with the living God!
The practice of the sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist allow
Christians to read Scripture in the context of the church and in
unity with the Trinity. Charles Meeks argues here, however, that
over the centuries since the Reformation, Protestant expressions of
the church have often allowed the sacraments to assume a minor role
that has led to a weakening of Protestant ecclesiology and a
disconnection of these ancient rituals from the gospel. To unpack
this reality, Meeks relies on the work of fourth-century bishop
Hilary of Poitiers and modern theologian Robert W. Jenson to
examine the relationship between the sacraments and Scripture, the
Trinity, and the church. With Hilary, he retrieves a hermeneutic
that starts from the interdependence of the sacraments with all
aspects of Christian life, especially the way one reads Scripture,
formulates theology, and understands what the church is and is not.
With Jenson, Meeks applies this hermeneutic to the modern church in
an appeal to recover a premodern sense of God's relationship to
time, and thus how the church relates to God through Word and
Sacrament.
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