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The Crucified Life - Seven Words from the Cross (Hardcover): Charlie Holt The Crucified Life - Seven Words from the Cross (Hardcover)
Charlie Holt; Edited by Ginny Mooney; Foreword by Francis C. Gray
R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Prayer for Christmas (Hardcover): Edward Reed A Prayer for Christmas (Hardcover)
Edward Reed
R693 Discovery Miles 6 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Aztec Goddesses and Christian Madonnas - Images of the Divine Feminine in Mexico (Paperback, New Ed): Joseph Kroger, Patrizia... Aztec Goddesses and Christian Madonnas - Images of the Divine Feminine in Mexico (Paperback, New Ed)
Joseph Kroger, Patrizia Granziera
R1,356 Discovery Miles 13 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The face of the divine feminine can be found everywhere in Mexico. One of the most striking features of Mexican religious life is the prevalence of images of the Virgin Mother of God. This is partly because the divine feminine played such a prominent role in pre-Hispanic Mexican religion. Goddess images were central to the devotional life of the Aztecs, especially peasants and those living in villages outside the central city of Tenochtitlan (present day Mexico City). In these rural communities fertility and fecundity, more than war rituals and sacrificial tribute, were the main focus of cultic activity. Both Aztec goddesses and the Christian Madonnas who replaced them were associated, and sometimes identified, with nature and the environment: the earth, water, trees and other sources of creativity and vitality. This book uncovers the myths and images of 22 Aztec Goddesses and 28 Christian Madonnas of Mexico. Their rich and symbolic meaning is revealed by placing them in the context of the religious worldviews in which they appear and by situating them within the devotional life of the faithful for whom they function as powerful mediators of divine grace and terror.

The Craft of Ritual Studies (Hardcover): Ronald L. Grimes The Craft of Ritual Studies (Hardcover)
Ronald L. Grimes
R3,809 Discovery Miles 38 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ronald L. Grimes shows that this debate has stagnated, due in part to a manner of theorizing too far removed from the study of actual religious practices. A worthwhile theory, according to Grimes, must be practice-oriented, and practices are most effectively studied by field research methods. The Craft of Ritual Studies melds together a systematic theory and method capable of underwriting the cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of ritual enactments. Grimes first exposes the limitations that disable many theories of ritual-for example, defining ritual as essentially religious, assuming that ritual's only function is to generate group solidarity, or treating ritual as a mirror of the status quo. He proposes strategies and offers guidelines for conducting field research on the public performance of rites, providing a guide for fieldwork on complex ritual enactments, particularly those characterized by social conflict or cultural creativity. The volume also provides a section on case study, focusing on a single complex event: the Santa Fe Fiesta, a New Mexico celebration marked by protracted ethnic conflict and ongoing dramatic creativity. Grimes explains how rites interact creatively and critically with their social surroundings, developing such themes as the relation of ritual to media, theater, and film, the dynamics of ritual creativity, the negotiation of ritual criticism, and the impact of ritual on cultural and physical environments. This important and influential book will be the capstone work of Grimes's three decades of leadership in the field of ritual studies. It is accompanied by twenty online appendices illustrating key aspects of ritual study.

Feasting on the Word Worship Companion - Trinity Sunday through Reign of Christ (Hardcover): Kimberly Bracken Long Feasting on the Word Worship Companion - Trinity Sunday through Reign of Christ (Hardcover)
Kimberly Bracken Long
R1,033 R847 Discovery Miles 8 470 Save R186 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Based on the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL), Feasting on the Word Worship Companion: Liturgies for Year C, Volume 2 is an invaluable aid that provides liturgical pieces needed in preparing for worship each week. Written and compiled by a team of eleven ecumenical and seasoned liturgy writers under the creative leadership of Kimberly Bracken Long, this resource offers a multitude of poetic prayers and responsive readings for all parts of worship and is meant to complement existing denominational resources. In addition, the weekly entries include questions for reflection and household prayers for morning and evening that are drawn from the lectionary, allowing churches to include them in their bulletin for parishioners to use throughout the week.


During times of the year when two different tracks of Old Testament texts are offered by the RCL, this resource offers an entire set of materials for each track. Also, a CD-ROM is included with each volume that enables planners to easily cut and paste relevant readings, prayers, and questions into worship bulletins.

Flesh Made Word - The Protestant Interpretation Problem and an Embodied Hermeneutic (Hardcover): Lauren Smelser White Flesh Made Word - The Protestant Interpretation Problem and an Embodied Hermeneutic (Hardcover)
Lauren Smelser White
R2,396 R2,226 Discovery Miles 22 260 Save R170 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book delineates the individualist "interpretation problem" that has long beset Protestant biblical interpretation, and engages theological resources that could serve to move beyond it. Lauren Smelser White argues that readers of Scripture-specifically those who long to submit their lives to God's transforming Word, which they believe the Bible discloses-ought to reckon with the participatory role that human bodies (corporeal and corporate) play in producing revelation's norms. Such a reckoning need not entail giving up on Scripture delivering the life-changing address of a divine Other. In support of that claim, White distills a picture of revelation as a divine-human discursive encounter: a process wherein our hermeneutic constructions are incorporated into the Word's self-disclosure, and whereby interpreters who embrace this venture in vulnerability may experience graced transformation. The work concludes by proposing that this "Christomorphic" interpretation process is analogous to a mother's embodied responsiveness in caring for her child. Such a hermeneutic paradigm suggests distinctive commitments from communities who desire to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in interpretive acts.

Pilgrim Voices - Narrative and Authorship in Christian Pilgrimage (Paperback, illustrated edition): Simon Coleman, John Elsner Pilgrim Voices - Narrative and Authorship in Christian Pilgrimage (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Simon Coleman, John Elsner
R700 Discovery Miles 7 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Research on pilgrimage has traditionally fallen across a series of academic disciplines - anthropology, archaeology, art history, geography, history and theology. To date, relatively little work has been devoted to the issue of pilgrimage as writing and specifically as a form of travel-writing. The aim of the interdisciplinary essays gathered here is to examine the relations of Christian pilgrimage to the numerous narratives, which it generates and upon which it depends. Authors reveal not only the tensions between oral and written accounts but also the frequent ambiguities of journeys - the possibilities of shifts between secular and sacred forms and accounts of travel. Above all, the papers reveal the self-generating and multiple-authored characteristics of pilgrimage narrative: stories of past pilgrimage experience generate future stories and even future journeys.

Simon Coleman moved to Sussex University in 2004, having spent 11 years at Durham University as Lecturer and then Reader in Anthropology, and Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health.

John Elsner is Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

The Approaching Sabbath (Hardcover): Thomas R Swears The Approaching Sabbath (Hardcover)
Thomas R Swears; Foreword by Fred B Craddock
R802 R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Save R139 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot (Hardcover): Seth Andrews Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot (Hardcover)
Seth Andrews
R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Shepherd's Song (Hardcover): Rob Sargeant A Shepherd's Song (Hardcover)
Rob Sargeant
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Way of the Cross with St. John Paul II (Paperback): Father Herbert Niba The Way of the Cross with St. John Paul II (Paperback)
Father Herbert Niba
R147 R123 Discovery Miles 1 230 Save R24 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Worship For Everyone - Unlocking the Transforming Power of All-Age Worship (Paperback): Nick Drake, Becky Drake Worship For Everyone - Unlocking the Transforming Power of All-Age Worship (Paperback)
Nick Drake, Becky Drake
R334 Discovery Miles 3 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Written by the leading and best-known experts and practitioners

Enneagram 3 YEARLY ACTIVATOR Planner - Yearly planner for an enneagram type Three (Hardcover): Enneapages Enneagram 3 YEARLY ACTIVATOR Planner - Yearly planner for an enneagram type Three (Hardcover)
Enneapages
R1,010 Discovery Miles 10 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Drinking with Saint Nick - Christmas Cocktails for Sinners and Saints (Hardcover): Michael P Foley Drinking with Saint Nick - Christmas Cocktails for Sinners and Saints (Hardcover)
Michael P Foley
R504 R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Save R79 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Raise your spirits and toast Saint Nick! Hot gin toddies. Smoking rosemary old fashioneds. A "wet" Advent calendar. Now you can experience Christmas the way it was meant to be celebrated: with festive cocktails and a lively history of Saint Nicholas and other saints! Michael Foley, author of Drinking with the Saints, presents holiday drink recipes; beer, wine, and cider recommendations; and witty instruction on how to honor the saints in this exquisite gift book that will make your Christmas more spirited than ever before. "With lively stories and delicious drink recipes, this book takes us on a rollicking journey through the lives of the saints. What a fun and fabulous way to engage with your faith during the holidays." - Jennifer Fulwiler, author of One Beautiful Dream and host of the Jennifer Fulwiler Show on the Catholic Channel

Reflect (Hardcover): Stephanie Mathews Reflect (Hardcover)
Stephanie Mathews
R631 R520 Discovery Miles 5 200 Save R111 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How to Prepare for Communion (Hardcover): Matthew Henry How to Prepare for Communion (Hardcover)
Matthew Henry
R464 Discovery Miles 4 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Very Short Reflections--For Advent and Christmas, Lent and Easter, Ordinary Time, and Saints--Through the Liturgical Year... Very Short Reflections--For Advent and Christmas, Lent and Easter, Ordinary Time, and Saints--Through the Liturgical Year (Hardcover)
Mark G. Boyer
R962 R788 Discovery Miles 7 880 Save R174 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ronin - The Last Reindeer (Hardcover): Tony Bertauski Ronin - The Last Reindeer (Hardcover)
Tony Bertauski
R695 Discovery Miles 6 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Sabbath as Rest and Hope for the People of God (Paperback): Guy Prentiss Waters The Sabbath as Rest and Hope for the People of God (Paperback)
Guy Prentiss Waters; Series edited by Dane C. Ortlund, Miles V. Van Pelt
R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this addition to the Short Studies in Biblical Theology series, Guy Prentiss Waters provides a study of the Sabbath, from creation to consummation.

Children at Worship - Congregations in Bloom (Paperback): Caroline S Fairless Children at Worship - Congregations in Bloom (Paperback)
Caroline S Fairless
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The author shows in this book how a parish can incorporate its children into full participation with the worshiping community. Tapping their creativity to design a spectacular array of materials for worship -- a storyteller's cloak, prayer cards, confessions stones, rap sermons, sculpture, and painting -- liturgy comes intensely alive for parishioners of all ages. As Fairless demonstrates, the full participation of children in corporate worship, while not a simple matter, is deeply rewarding. An introduction by Louis Weil, professor at Church Divinity School of the Pacific, provides the theological rationale for the inclusion of all baptized members in the worship life of the community.

Fishing for Praise (Hardcover): Paul Poulton Fishing for Praise (Hardcover)
Paul Poulton
R834 R683 Discovery Miles 6 830 Save R151 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Dynamics of Pilgrimage - Christianity, Holy Places, and Sensory Experience (Paperback): Dee Dyas The Dynamics of Pilgrimage - Christianity, Holy Places, and Sensory Experience (Paperback)
Dee Dyas
R1,221 Discovery Miles 12 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers a systematic, chronological analysis of the role played by the human senses in experiencing pilgrimage and sacred places, past and present. It thus addresses two major gaps in the existing literature, by providing a broad historical narrative against which patterns of continuity and change can be more meaningfully discussed, and focusing on the central, but curiously neglected, area of the core dynamics of pilgrim experience. Bringing together the still-developing fields of Pilgrimage Studies and Sensory Studies in a historically framed conversation, this interdisciplinary study traces the dynamics of pilgrimage and engagement with holy places from the beginnings of the Judaeo-Christian tradition to the resurgence of interest evident in twenty-first century England. Perspectives from a wide range of disciplines, from history to neuroscience, are used to examine themes including sacred sites in the Bible and Early Church; pilgrimage and holy places in early and later medieval England; the impact of the English Reformation; revival of pilgrimage and sacred places during the nineteenth and twentieth Centuries; and the emergence of modern place-centred, popular 'spirituality'. Addressing the resurgence of pilgrimage and its persistent link to the attachment of meaning to place, this book will be a key reference for scholars of Pilgrimage Studies, History of Religion, Religious Studies, Sensory Studies, Medieval Studies, and Early Modern Studies.

Mass & Adoration Companion (Leather / fine binding): Vinny Flynn Mass & Adoration Companion (Leather / fine binding)
Vinny Flynn; Edited by Erin Flynn
R691 R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Save R124 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Halloween, Hallowed is Thy Name - How to Scripturally and Theologically Justify Christian Halloween Haunted Houses and Other... Halloween, Hallowed is Thy Name - How to Scripturally and Theologically Justify Christian Halloween Haunted Houses and Other Evangelistic Events for Christian Fellowship, Fun, and Prophet. (Hardcover)
Rev. Dr. Eddie J. Smith
R1,044 Discovery Miles 10 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Halloween has been referred to as the Devil's holiday, but all 365 1/4 days were created by and belong to Jesus. If Satan usurps even one day it is our Christian duty and responsibility to reclaim and redeem it in the name of our Lord. Are the imaginary ghouls and goblins of Halloween any more wicked than the jolly elf called Santa Claus, or the Easter bunny? Should the Church stop celebrating these holy days, the bookends of our faith, as well?

Instead of battling the spiritual enemy on Halloween, the Church is guilty of crossing swords with one another. We fight among ourselves, not about "how" to celebrate Halloween, but whether it should even be observed. Jesus is more the "reason for the season" on Halloween than He is at Christmas. The Church must realize it is forfeiting Halloween as an opportunity to glorify the Prince of Peace, the One who has given us the victory over the "prince of darkness" and his evil minions. The Way, the Truth and the Life has conquered Death and the grave.

By dressing up in costumes and portraying frightening creatures who at one time caused us to fear and tremble, we are not glorifying Satan. Rather, we are poking fun at the Serpent whose kingdom has been plundered by our Savior, and whose head has been crushed Should we celebrate Halloween? The question is, "How can we not?" "Halloween, Hallowed is Thy" "Name "offers a believer confidence and joy in expressing the greeting "Happy Halloween."

Theological Foundations of Worship - Biblical, Systematic, and Practical Perspectives (Paperback): Khalia J Williams, Mark A.... Theological Foundations of Worship - Biblical, Systematic, and Practical Perspectives (Paperback)
Khalia J Williams, Mark A. Lamport, Melanie Ross, Mark Lamport
R688 R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Save R167 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume brings together an ecumenical team of scholars to present key theological concepts related to worship to help readers articulate their own theology of worship. Contributors explore the history of theology's impact on worship practices across the Christian tradition, highlighting themes such as creation, pneumatology, sanctification, and mission. The book includes introductions by N. T. Wright and Nicholas Wolterstorff. A forthcoming volume will address the historical foundations of worship.

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