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How will we regather the church after pandemic? The Covid-19
pandemic is an inflection point for the church everywhere-and
certainly for the Episcopal Church. The sudden flowering of
creativity, connection, and collaboration is an expression of the
Holy Spirit's relentless presence within the church; yet ongoing
distancing creates difficulties to be overcome on the other side of
the present crisis. How will we change habits of isolation and
regather the church? How will we manage the impact on church
finances? How is God calling us to embrace the energy and
creativity of this moment-and the longing people have felt for a
return to community? What challenges will we face regathering the
people of God, particularly in already weakened communities? We
Shall Be Changed is a gathering of brief essays from thought
leaders around the church on pressing topics that the church needs
to be considering now-in preparation for the end of this pandemic.
The book is designed to spur conversation within parishes,
fellowship groups, and clergy gatherings about how to embrace the
gifts this time has given while anticipating and addressing the
very real challenges the church will confront in its wake.
Death and rebirth was of vital importance to early Christians in
late antiquity. In late antiquity, death was all encompassing.
Mortality rates were high, plague and disease in urban areas struck
at will, and one lived on the knife's edge regarding one's health.
Religion filled a crucial role in this environment, offering an
option for those who sought cure and comfort. Following death, the
inhumed were memorialized, providing solace to family members
through sculpture, painting, and epigraphy. This book offers a
sustained interdisciplinary treatment of death and rebirth, a theme
that early Christians (and scholars) found important. By analysing
the theme of death and rebirth through various lenses, the
contributors deepen our understanding of the early Christian
funerary and liturgical practices as well as their engagement with
other groups in the Empire.
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Seven Last Words (Hardcover)
Andrew McGowan; Illustrated by Bettina Clowney
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R928
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Discovery Miles 7 430
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Some early Christians used water, not wine, in the cup of their Eucharist, and avoided eating meat. This kind of avoidance, more common than previously imagined, reflected a more radical stance towards the wider society than that taken by the Christian mainstream. The discussion here throws new light on early Christianity and the ways eating and drinking have often reflected deeply-held beliefs and values.
Never before has there existed a more diverse set of possibilities
for understanding the canonical texts of the New Testament, other
early Christian literature, and the history of the emergent
Christian movement that was to become the church. Harold W.
Attridge has contributed authoritatively to many of the disciplines
that underlie approaches to these questions: textual criticism,
exegesis, comparative literary and historical studies, and numerous
other areas. In honor of his work, this volume seeks to draw many
of these methodological threads together. Readers will find
discussions of both new and traditional methods of New Testament
study, with numerous examples indicating how these approaches work
and what insights they yield. The contributors are Gary A.
Anderson, David E. Aune, James Hamilton Charlesworth, Adela Yarbro
Collins, John J. Collins, J. Keith Elliott, Eldon Jay Epp, Philip
F. Esler, Craig A. Evans, Everett Ferguson, Sean Freyne, Gabriella
Gelardini, Mark Goodacre, Rowan A. Greer, Richard A. Horsley,
Judith M. Lieu, Francisco Lozada Jr., Andrew B. McGowan, Edgar V.
McKnight, Elaine Pagels, Pheme Perkins, Richard I. Pervo, David
Rhoads, Kent Harold Richards, James M. Robinson, David T. Runia,
Thomas D. Stegman, SJ, Thomas H. Tobin, SJ, Joseph B. Tyson, and
James VanderKam.
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