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Holy Moments (Paperback): Emily Delikat Holy Moments (Paperback)
Emily Delikat
R439 R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Save R33 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity - Ritual, Visual, and Theological Dimensions (Paperback): Robin M Jensen Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity - Ritual, Visual, and Theological Dimensions (Paperback)
Robin M Jensen
R648 R568 Discovery Miles 5 680 Save R80 (12%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

2013 Catholic Press Award Winner What can we learn from early Christian imagery about the theological meaning of baptism? Robin Jensen, a leading scholar of early Christian art and worship, examines multiple dimensions of the early Christian baptismal rite. She explores five models for understanding baptism--as cleansing from sin, sickness, and Satan; as incorporation into the community; as sanctifying and illuminative; as death and regeneration; and as the beginning of the new creation--showing how visual images, poetic language, architectural space, and symbolic actions signify and convey the theological meaning of this ritual practice. Considering image and action together, Jensen offers a holistic and integrated understanding of the power of baptism. The book is illustrated with photos.

Sound, Lighting and Video: A Resource for Worship (Hardcover): Brad Herring Sound, Lighting and Video: A Resource for Worship (Hardcover)
Brad Herring
R4,507 Discovery Miles 45 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hallelujah! Finally the book you've been waiting for! Sound, Lighting & Video: A Resource for Worship is the only book that tackles the integration and use of light, sound and video for houses or worship. Connect with more people in ways you never thought possible. Written by the managing editor of "Worship Arts & Technology Magazine" you'll learn how to: * Integrate sound, lighting and video together from the ground up for easy application * Connect with more people in ways you've never imagined * Re-examine and re-incorporate your current media systems * Be up and running like the pros with this beginner-friendly guide * Solve your greatest technical problems efficiently, without the information overload * Better communicate your message using media solutions

Handbook of Disaster Ritual - Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Cases and Themes (Paperback): P. Post Handbook of Disaster Ritual - Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Cases and Themes (Paperback)
P. Post
R3,257 Discovery Miles 32 570 Out of stock

The Handbook of Disaster Ritual presents an overview of relevant literature, perspectives, methods, concepts, as well as a selection of topical themes in relation to current disaster rituals. The handbook has been compiled from multi-disciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and works with broad definitions of the concepts of both disaster and ritual. A disaster is defined as an event or situation that causes a significant disruption of a society or a group and evokes a collective and/or an individual reaction with expression of mourning, compassion, indignation, protest, call for justice, recovery, reconciliation, and consolation. In this working definition, it is clear that the impact of a disaster is 'translated ritually'. Disasters bring forth a variety of ritual practices. The Handbook of Disaster Ritual consists of three parts. After an extensive conceptual and historiographical introduction, Part I presents several perspectives on the study of disasters and disaster rituals. In Part II, a team of international scholars presents nineteen case studies of various disasters and disaster rituals. Part III addresses various themes from the case studies that can be seen as key elements in disaster rituals.

Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England (Paperback): Susan S. Morrison Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England (Paperback)
Susan S. Morrison
R1,487 Discovery Miles 14 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This thought-provoking book explores medieval perceptions of pilgrimage, gender and space. It examines real life evidence for the widespread presence of women pilgrims, as well as secular and literary texts concerning pilgrimage and women pilgrims represented in the visual arts. Women pilgrims were inextricably linked with sexuality and their presence on the pilgrimage trails was viewed as tainting sacred space.

Rest & War - Rhythms Of A Well-Fought Life (Paperback): Ben Stuart Rest & War - Rhythms Of A Well-Fought Life (Paperback)
Ben Stuart
R426 R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Save R40 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This is not simply a book about having more discipline so you can live your dreams.

Rest & War is about pushing back the chaos and bringing about order to your life. It is about driving the evil dictator out of your heart and establishing the true King so you can:

  • Overcome the deceptive strategies of sin aimed specifically at your weaknesses that bend your behaviors to broken ends
  • Stop giving your heart to aimless affections and learn how to intentionally orient your life and loves around a God who cares for you
  • Recognize that under your misdirected affections and motivations is a deep and good longing for God
  • Discover methods of overcoming personal shortcomings that do not rely on shame-based motivation

The writer of Hebrews declares we are called to “cast off all that hinders” and “run the race marked out for us.” We are called into the action! In our race we must both flee some things and pursue others. It’s not about being free of all struggles. Rather, we have been empowered to struggle well.

Moment by Moment - A Retreat in Everyday Life (Paperback): Carol Ann Smith, Gene Merz Moment by Moment - A Retreat in Everyday Life (Paperback)
Carol Ann Smith, Gene Merz
R387 R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Save R26 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Drawing on the classic retreat model, The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius, Moment by Moment offers a new and inviting way to find God in our often busy and complex lives.

What is the Kingdom of Heaven? (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover): A Clutton-Brock What is the Kingdom of Heaven? (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
A Clutton-Brock
R1,440 Discovery Miles 14 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Written as the First World War was finally drawing to a close, A. Clutton-Brock's reflections on the Kingdom of Heaven examine this challenging theological concept in light of the great religious, political and moral uncertainties thrown up by the conflict. In particular, Clutton-Brock contends that historically Christian orthodoxy has not sufficiently emphasised the role of the Kingdom in salvation, given its importance in the ministry and teaching of Christ. To preserve a religious vision capable of interacting with the modern, industrial world, Christian orthodoxy must carefully consider the scope and importance of political practice, the role of the individual in the realisation of the Kingdom, and the profound implications of reconciling the facts of the universe with the most sincerely held beliefs.

Purpose, Pattern, and Character of Worship, The (Paperback): L.Edward Phillips Purpose, Pattern, and Character of Worship, The (Paperback)
L.Edward Phillips
R741 R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Save R86 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Spiritual Background To Christian Festivals (Paperback): Charles Kovacs The Spiritual Background To Christian Festivals (Paperback)
Charles Kovacs
R360 R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Save R36 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The rhythms of the earth can be seen in, for example, the daily cycle of day and night, or in the changing seasons. Rudolf Steiner spoke about how Christian festivals such as Easter, Whitsun and Christmas fitted not just into these patterns, but also into larger cosmic rhythms and, on a smaller scale, human rhythms. In this concise, readable book Charles Kovacs explores the structure of our calendar year and looks in detail at the background to each Christian festival, including lesser-known ones such as St John's Tide and Michaelmas. This book is based on lectures Charles Kovacs originally gave at the Rudolf Steiner School in Edinburgh. Kovacs strove to develop in the children a love and understanding of the seasons in the cycle of the year; parents were keen to be involved too, and asked Kovacs to give a series of lectures on the subject to deepen their own understanding.

Exclusion and Judgement in Fellowship Meals - The Socio-historical Background of 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 (Paperback): Jamir... Exclusion and Judgement in Fellowship Meals - The Socio-historical Background of 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 (Paperback)
Jamir Lanuwabang
R1,020 Discovery Miles 10 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Exclusion and Judgment in Fellowship Meals, Lanuwabang Jamir seeks to demonstrate that the tradition of fellowship meals in the ancient world form the background against which the Lord's Supper must be understood. Similarly, the basis of Paul's response to the situation in Corinth and his theology of the Lord's Supper is to be found in these traditions. The role of the fellowship meal in Greco-Roman and Jewish culture indicate that it was an important institution that played a pivotal role in the functioning of society. Judgment was an integral part of the fellowship meal traditions and it made such meal practices all the more significant in ancient cultures. For example, Jamir reveals that social-economic factors were only part of the problem in Corinth, where differences in ideology were the underlying cause of divisions in the church. Paul's response to the problem shows that he upheld the fellowship meal traditions, linking sickness and death with the abuse of the Lord's Supper. The concept of judgment in the Lord's Supper, while based on the fellowship meal traditions, has been redefined in the light of the Gospel tradition.

Divine Presence in Spain and Western Europe 1500-1960 - Visions, Religious Images and Photographs (Paperback): William A.... Divine Presence in Spain and Western Europe 1500-1960 - Visions, Religious Images and Photographs (Paperback)
William A. Christian Jr
R778 Discovery Miles 7 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A few selected cases of visions and apparitions are detected and analyzed, including personal interviews with some of the witnesses. Of special interest is the final third of the book: the transposition of medieval and early modern representations of the relations between humans and the divine into the modern art of photography. Christian presents a pictorial examination of the phenomenon, commenting a large number of images, including commercial postcards and family photographs from the first half of past century Europe.

Faithful Celebrations - Making Time for God with the Saints (Paperback): Sharon Ely Pearson Faithful Celebrations - Making Time for God with the Saints (Paperback)
Sharon Ely Pearson
R483 Discovery Miles 4 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

* Experiential activities for celebrating the saints * For use in churches, schools, camps, and home settings Many of our experiences in life happen when several generations are together - at church, at home, in our communities. Often we only celebrate the saints on All Saints Sunday or when a particular saint is commemorated in a secular way. This volume in the Faithful Celebration series focuses on some well-known and some not-so-well-known saints, many who are not all officially "sainted" but certainly having lived a life of faith under difficult circumstances. Each event recalling a particular saint includes key ideas, a cluster of activities to experience the key ideas, materials needed, full instructions for implementation, background history and information, music, art, recipes, and prayer resources to use in a small, intimate or large multi-generational group. For children, youth, adults, or any combination of ages any of these activities can take place in any setting. Faithful Celebrations: Making Time for God with the Saints - Patrick of Ireland - Nicholas of Myra - Joan of Arc - Sebastian of Gaul - Absalom Jones of Philadelphia - Julian of Norwich - Emmegahbowh of White Earth

Inhabited by Grace - The Way of Incarnate Love (Paperback): William O Daniel Jr Inhabited by Grace - The Way of Incarnate Love (Paperback)
William O Daniel Jr; Foreword by Prince G Singh
R466 Discovery Miles 4 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What does it mean to inhabit the life of liturgy? What does it mean to be inhabited by Christ? This book offers a way to rethink what we do when we pray, so that we do not so much call on God for help but join in a conversation. Readers will learn how to think about God through certain habits and practices: how posture effects our perceptions of God and Christ, how feasting on Christ in the Eucharist shapes our understanding of the body-both our individual bodies and the body of the Church. The author also offers tools for forming a deliberate rule of life to ground readers in the transcendent life of liturgy. Readers will recognize the inseparability of the tables of their homes and the Eucharistic Table, relating daily life with Eucharistic life. Dr. Daniel connects the language of the Book of Common Prayer with the everyday realities of ordinary life, compelling the worshiper to discern how daily practices correspond with or fight against her participation in the Eucharistic economy.

The Study of Medieval Chant - Paths and Bridges, East and West. In Honor of Kenneth Levy (Hardcover): Peter Jeffery The Study of Medieval Chant - Paths and Bridges, East and West. In Honor of Kenneth Levy (Hardcover)
Peter Jeffery; Contributions by Alejandro Planchart, Charles M Atkinson, David G. Hughes, Dimitrije Stefanovic, …
R4,291 Discovery Miles 42 910 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Comparative studies of medieval chant traditions in western Europe, Byzantium and the Slavic nations illuminate music, literacy and culture. Gregorian chant was the dominant liturgical music of the medieval period, from the time it was adopted by Charlemagne's court in the eighth century; but for centuries afterwards it competed with other musical traditions, local repertories from the great centres of Rome, Milan, Ravenna, Benevento, Toledo, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Kievan Rus, and comparative study of these chant traditions can tell us much about music, liturgy, literacy and culture a thousand years ago. This is the first book-length work to look at the issues in a global, comprehensive way, in the manner of the work of Kenneth Levy, the leading exponent of comparative chant studies. It covers the four most fruitful approaches for investigators: the creation and transmission of chant texts, based on the psalms and other sources, and their assemblage into liturgical books; the analysis and comparison of musical modes and scales; the usesof neumatic notation for writing down melodies, and the differences wrought by developmental changes and notational reforms over the centuries; and the use of case studies, in which the many variations in a specific text or melodyare traced over time and geographical distance. The book is therefore of profound importance for historians of medieval music or religion - Western, Byzantine, or Slavonic - and for anyone interested in issues of orality and writing in the transmission of culture. PETER JEFFERY is Professor of Music History, Princeton University. Contributors: JAMES W. McKINNON, MARGOT FASSLER, MICHEL HUGLO, NICOLAS SCHIDLOVSKY, KEITH FALCONER, PETER JEFFERY, DAVID G.HUGHES, SYSSE GUDRUN ENGBERG, CHARLES M. ATKINSON, MILOS VELIMIROVIC, JORGEN RAASTED+, RUTH STEINER, DIMITRIJE STEFANOVIC, ALEJANDRO PLANCHART.

Planning for Rites and Rituals - A Resource for Episcopal Worship Year A: 2022-2023 (Paperback): Planning for Rites and Rituals - A Resource for Episcopal Worship Year A: 2022-2023 (Paperback)
R914 Discovery Miles 9 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the indispensable companion for worship planning for the Episcopal Church. Following the three-year Revised Common Lectionary cycle and the church calendar year, this is the all-in-one liturgical season planner for worship. Included are suggestions for each season: rites, blessings, prayers, litanies, pageants. Readings, psalms, worship, and formation, and hymn suggestions are compiled for each Sunday and holy day. Presiders and preachers, worship team leaders, musicians, Christian educators, sacristans, and altar guilds will find this to be the perfect resource, putting all the elements for planning worship and seasonal observances in one handy volume.

Celebrating Festivals with Children (Paperback): Freya Jaffke Celebrating Festivals with Children (Paperback)
Freya Jaffke; Translated by Matthew Barton
R420 R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Save R42 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In this thoughtful book, Freya Jaffke describes festival celebrations in relation to child development in the first seven years. She considers in detail the main festivals throughout the year: Easter, Whitsun, St John's, starting school, harvest, Michaelmas, lantern time, birthdays, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Advent, Christmas, Epiphany and carnival. Drawing on many examples, she shows how we can celebrate festivals with children at home and in kindergarten in a meaningful way. Every festival is prefaced with a deeper contemplation for adults, before considering preparations with children, followed by the actual organisation of the festival -- with games, craft activities and decorations, stories, songs, poems and the seasonal nature table.

The Church Music of Fifteenth-Century Spain (Hardcover, New): Kenneth Kreitner The Church Music of Fifteenth-Century Spain (Hardcover, New)
Kenneth Kreitner
R3,029 Discovery Miles 30 290 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Analysis of Latin sacred music written during the century illustrates the rapid and marked change in style and sophistication. Winner of the 2007 AMS Robert M. Stevenson prize The arrival of Francisco de Penalosa at the Aragonese court in May 1498 marks something of an epoch in the history of Spanish music: Penalosa wrote in a mature, northern-oriented style, and his sacred music influenced Iberian composers for generations after his death. Kenneth Kreitner looks at the church music sung by Spaniards in the decades before Penalosa, a repertory that has long been ignoredbecause much of it is anonymous and because it is scattered through manuscripts better known for something else. He identifies sixty-seven pieces of surviving Latin sacred music that were written in Spain between 1400 and the early 1500s, and he discusses them source by source, revealing the rapid and dramatic change, not only in the style and sophistication of these pieces, but in the level of composerly self-consciousness shown in the manuscripts. Withina generation or so at the end of the fifteenth century, Spanish musicians created a new national music just as Ferdinand and Isabella were creating a new nation. KENNETH KREITNER teaches at the University of Memphis.

Unlikely Pilgrim - A Journey into History and Faith (Hardcover): Alfred S. Regnery Unlikely Pilgrim - A Journey into History and Faith (Hardcover)
Alfred S. Regnery
R596 R427 Discovery Miles 4 270 Save R169 (28%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Step Gently in the World - Resources for Holy Week (Paperback): Sally Foster-Fulton Step Gently in the World - Resources for Holy Week (Paperback)
Sally Foster-Fulton
R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Reflections, meditations, prayers and liturgies for Holy Week following the journey of Jesus from Palm Sunday to Easter Day. A book which affirms that, even in the darkness of betrayal and denial and death, we can rise up and live different lives: where the justice, peace and love poured out in Christ's life can be resurrected in our own. You stepped gently on the earth, O Christ of all; and you treat gently all those who come your way - Call us down into the world you love and put us to work. Call us down into the streets you walk and have our footsteps keep to yours. Call us down into the places where you are needed and make us your body.

Worship and the Reality of God - An Evangelical Theology of Real Presence (Paperback, New): John Jefferson Davis Worship and the Reality of God - An Evangelical Theology of Real Presence (Paperback, New)
John Jefferson Davis
R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Is God missing from our worship? Obstacles to true worship are not about contemporary or traditional music, electronic gadgetry or seeker sensitivity. Rather it is the habits of mind and heart, conditioned by our surrounding culture, that hinder our faith in the real presence of the transcendent God among his people. Sensing a real need for renewal, John Jefferson Davis offers a theology of worship that uncovers the most fundamental barriers to our vital involvement in the worship of our holy God. His profound theological analysis leads to fresh and bracing recommendations that will be especially helpful to all those who lead worship or want to more fully and deeply encounter the glory and majesty of God.

Manifesting God (Paperback): Thomas Keating Manifesting God (Paperback)
Thomas Keating
R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Keating discusses the principles of contemplative prayer?the retreat into the ?inner room? mentioned by Jesus in Matthew 6:6. In the inner room, God acts as a divine therapist, healing us and forcing us to recognize how many barriers we put up between ourselves and God. This process is the foundation of centering prayer?a technique of prayer that Keating and other contemporary mystics have revived out of the ancient mystical traditions of the Desert Fathers and the medieval mystics.

Your Endowment - Revised and Expanded (Paperback): Mark A. Shields Your Endowment - Revised and Expanded (Paperback)
Mark A. Shields
R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
New Handbook of Pastoral Liturgy (Paperback): Michael Perham New Handbook of Pastoral Liturgy (Paperback)
Michael Perham
R627 R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A guide to liturgy and worship in the Church of England within the framework of 'Common Worship', which combines theory, theology and history with a strong sense of the realities of parish life and pastoral practice. It explores the way in which liturgy can reflect the life of the church and the wider world, and the new opportunities for churches at a local level to own and shape the liturgy they use. This book is essential reading for anyone involved in worship in the Church of England, and who wants the worship of their church to be the best they can offer, based on clear liturgical principles. It is also practical and detailed - Michael Perham covers clothing and colours, children's role in worship, the cycle of the Christian year, the timing of services, the use of church space and other elements that go to make up the feel of an individual church. The book has its roots in two of Michael Perham's earlier works, 'Liturgy Pastoral and Parochial' and 'Lively Sacrifice', though much of the material is quite new, and fills its role as key texts for anyone interested in the liturgy of the Church of England.

Liturgical Space - Christian Worship and Church Buildings in Western Europe 1500-2000 (Hardcover, New Ed): Nigel Yates Liturgical Space - Christian Worship and Church Buildings in Western Europe 1500-2000 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Nigel Yates
R4,639 Discovery Miles 46 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the internal arrangement of church buildings in Western Europe between 1500 and 2000, showing how these arrangements have met the liturgical needs of their respective denominations, Catholic and Protestant, over this period. In addition to a chapter looking at the general impact of the Reformation on church buildings, there are separate chapters on the churches of the Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican and Roman Catholic traditions between the mid-sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, and on the ecclesiological movement of the nineteenth century and the liturgical movement of the twentieth century, both of which have impacted on all the churches of Western Europe over the past 150 years. The book is extensively illustrated with figures in the text and a series of plates and also contains comprehensive guides to both further reading and buildings to visit throughout Western Europe.

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