Ritual category: 1070 books
The Catholic Home
Celebrations and Traditions for Holidays, Feast Days, and Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
A practical, inspiring guide to Catholic observances and celebrations for the home.
For centuries, the Catholic Church has offered an abundance of splendid traditions that extend religious and spiritual practice into daily life. Now, Meredith Gould reintroduces these customs and rituals to...
Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity
Ritual, Visual, and Theological Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
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,...
Christian Theologies of the Sacraments
A Comparative Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Delves into the ancient debate regarding the nature and purpose of the seven sacraments
What are the sacraments? For centuries, this question has elicited a lively discussion and among theologians, and a variety of answers that do anything but outline a unified belief concerning these fundamental...
The Gospel of Mark
A Liturgical Reading
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
How Baptism and the Eucharist Shaped Early Christian Understandings of Jesus
Long before the Gospel writers put pen to papyrus, the earliest Christians participated in the powerful rituals of baptism and the Lord's Supper, which fundamentally shaped their understanding of God, Christ, and the...
Embodied Liturgy
Lessons in Christian Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Embodied Liturgy marks a “return to the body” in thinking about Christian liturgy and sacramental practice. Rooted in phenomenology and incarnational theology, the book gives primary focus to the body as it considers the prayer offices and the liturgical calendar, sacrifices and sacraments, initiation...
Praying with the Senses
Contemporary Orthodox Christian Spirituality in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
How do people experience spirituality through what they see, hear, touch, and smell? Sonja Luehrmann and an international group of scholars assess how sensory experience shapes prayer and ritual practice among Eastern Orthodox Christians. Prayer, even when performed privately, is considered as a shared...
The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662
The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
'In the midst of life we are in death' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the world. For nearly 500 years, and for countless people, it has provided a background fanfare for a marriage or a funeral march at a burial. Yet this familiarity also...
by M. Jennifer Bloxam, Joshua Kalin Busman, Stephen A. Crist
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
This essay collection celebrates the richness of Christian musical tradition across its two thousand year history and across the globe. Opening with a consideration of the fourth-century lamp-lighting hymn Phos hilaron and closing with reflections on contemporary efforts of Ghanaian composers to create...
Rehearsing God's Just Kingdom
The Eucharistic Vision of Mark Searle
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In the course of a teaching and writing career cut too short, Mark Searle (1941-1992) provided a worthy contribution to the study of liturgy. The breadth of his liturgical interests and his desire to integrate a wide range of academic areas with the study of liturgy mark this scholar as a gifted thinker...
by Kathleen Norris
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
“Vivid, compelling... An embrace of moral and spiritual contemplation.” –The New York Times
“A remarkable piece of writing. If read with humility and attention, Kathleen Norris's book becomes lectio divina,...
Remembering the Future
The Experience of Time in Jewish and Christian Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Common to both Judaism and Christianity is a heightened engagement with time within liturgical practice, in which collective religious memory and anticipation come together to create a unique sense of time. Exploring the nebulous realms of religious experience and the sense of time, Remembering the...
The Rites and Wrongs of Liturgy
Why Good Liturgy Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
We all want to celebrate the liturgy well, to experience good, uplifting, and meaningful worship. But what is the best route to follow? In The Rites and Wrongs of Liturgy, Thomas O’Loughlin offers a way forward that strengthens faith, builds up Christian community, and points toward a new direction...
The Spirit of Praise
Music and Worship in Global Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
In The Spirit of Praise, Monique Ingalls and Amos Yong bring together a multidisciplinary, scholarly exploration of music and worship in global pentecostal-charismatic Christianity at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The Spirit of Praise contends that gaining a full understanding of this...
Behold the Mystery
A Deeper Understanding of the Catholic Mass
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
As Catholics, the Mass should be a mountaintop experience for us. Often, though, we go through the motions at Mass without an appreciation for what has really happened. Popular speaker and author Mark Hart helps Catholics move beyond the repetition and ritual to see the Mass for what it really is:...