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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian worship > General
The Oxford History of Christian Worship is a comprehensive and
authoritative history of the origins and development of Christian
worship to the present day. Backed by an international roster of
experts as contributors, this new book will examine the liturgical
traditions of Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant, and Pentecostal
traditions throughout history and across the world. With 240
photographs and 10 maps, the full geographical spread of
Christianity is covered, including Europe, North America, Latin
America, Africa, East Asia, and the Pacific. Following contemporary
trends in scholarship, it will cover social and cultural contexts,
material culture and the arts.
Written to be accessible to the educated layperson, this unique and
beautiful volume will also appeal to clergy and liturgists and more
generally to students and scholars of the liturgy, Christian
theology, church history, and world history.
This study helps young people learn how to understand one of the
most important lessons of life: putting on the character of Christ.
Includes easy-to-understand examples, discussion questions, and
explanations of key words.
How does Christian ethics begin? This pioneering study explores the
grammar of the Christian life as it is embodied and learned in
worship as the formative experience of the 'fellow citizens of
God's people'. The book presents the first in-depth theological
investigation of the phenomenon of 'political worship' by exposing
the political nature of worship and the worship dimension of
politics. In a careful analysis of biblical and traditional
conceptions of worship, Wannenwetsch demonstrates how the genuine
political character of worship neutralizes attempts to politicize
or de-politicize it. In the imprinting of the experience of divine
reconciliation on the Christian body, worship challenges the
deepest antagonisms of political theory and practice: antagonisms
of 'private and public', 'freedom and necessity', and 'action and
contemplation'. At the same time, the 'spill over' of worship into
every sphere of life instils a healthy suspicion of post-liberal
conceptualizations of role-mobility. In the experience of 'hearing
in communion', an encounter with a word that does not deceive
announces the end of the rule of the hermeneutics of suspicion.
Further questions discussed include the conditions of true
consensus, forgiveness as a political virtue, `political rhetoric'
between accountability and self-justification, how 'reversible
role-taking' can avoid losing the otherness of the other, and how
the rhetoric of 'responsibility' can be saved from hubris or
depression. Particular practices or dimensions of worship
(confession, preaching, praising, intercession, observance of holy
days) are examined and their heuristic and formative potentials
explored in relation to these topics. A special feature of the
study is a strong ecumenical and international focus. The book
brings into conversation a variety of traditions (including
Lutheran, Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox) and contemporary
voices. An original contribution to Christian ethics, the book
addresses systematic and practical theology as well as political
theory, while indicating the essential interpenetration of these
disciplines.
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