Episcopalianism category: 259 books
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Theologies of Confirmation for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
• An all-in-one volume sharing the history, practice, and viewpoints of Confirmation in the Episcopal Church and the first book on the subject for at least 15 years • Resolutions regarding Confirmation are coming to the 2015 General Convention • Includes questions for reflection and study by...
Transformed Lives
Making Sense of Atonement Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Even theologians have had different ideas about the theology of atonement; how are the rest of supposed to understand it? This book is a good place to start. Crysdale, whose background in both psychology and theology gives her a unique perspective, presents an overview of the history of the theology...
by Stephen Holmgren
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2000
In this volume of The New Church's Teaching Series, Stephen Holmgren introduces us to the world of Anglican ethics and moral theology. He focuses on questions all people of faith must ask: How will I keep my baptismal promises? How am I meant to live “after Easter?”
In developing a distinctively...
Radical Love
An Introduction to Queer Theology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
An exploration of the teachings of Jesus in relation to the LGBTQ community that “helps readers welcome a theology that leaves no one behind” (Chris Glaser, author of Coming Out as Sacrament).
A common claim, on both on the political right and left, is that Christianity is incompatible...
Sensing God
Reading Scripture with All of Our Senses
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Think of all the senses you use when you pick up a Bible. What do you see? What do you smell? What do you touch? Reading scripture attentively is more than a matter of sight. Most of us have been taught to think about God in visual terms, yet the very subject matter of scripture—our relationship...
Mature Grief
When a Parent Dies
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2003
While there are no easy answers to loss and death, Mature Grief offers a compass to anyone navigating the unknown and uncharted waters of grief.
Each life comes from God. It begins with God and has no end. Our parents came from God, out from the circle of eternity, bestowed with goodness, and in dying...
Becoming Christ
Transformation Through Contemplation
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2002
With clarity, wisdom, and wit, Brian Taylor offers a fresh look at contemplative prayer as the pathway to genuine healing and spiritual transformation. Taylor gives practical, how-to advice for those with a serious interest in contemplative prayer, and also explores its roots in the faith and traditions...
by Harold T. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2001
In this volume of The New Church's Teaching Series, Harold T. Lewis surveys the teachings and witness of Anglicanism and the Episcopal Church concerning the Christian vision of a righteous social order, including the challenges of the new millennium. Beginning with the Bible's understandings of social...
Friend of the Soul
A Benedictine Spirituality of Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1997
In this second book in her series on Benedictine spirituality, Norvene Vest brings the insights of Benedict's Rule to the world of work. A gifted interpreter of Benedict's wisdom, Vest examines with empathy and clarity the plight of men and women who wish for their work to be life-giving, a service...
Daysprings
Meditations for the Weekdays of Advent, Lent and Easter
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2000
“Dayspring, my dictionary tells me, is an archaic word meaning ‘dawn.' But I have chosen Daysprings as the title for this collection of meditations for the several meanings in the ancient word and its components. I hope these brief reflections shed new light on old, familiar passages and illuminate...
Trustworthy Connections
Interpersonal Issues in Spiritual Direction
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2004
Although God is at the center of the process of spiritual direction, the more readily visible participants are human beings. Like all other people, directors and directees are subject to relationship dynamics. Trustworthy Connections identifies some issues and challenges that can arise in spiritual...
Matter of Life and Death
Preaching at Funerals
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
With the sensitivity born of time and experience, Charles Hoffacker presents an unusually warm and caring approach to preaching at a pivotal transition in human life, one which goes to the very heart of the Good News of Jesus Christ. Hoffacker teaches the reader, whether a seasoned preacher or a novice...
Unbound By Time
Isaiah Still Speaks
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002
In this timely and highly readable volume, Old Testament scholar William Holladay introduces the reader to the several ways in which Isaiah speaks, from ancient Jewish readings of the text, to Handel's lyrical use of it in his oratorio, Messiah, to the Christian community who has heard it foretelling...
Alleluia is the Song of the Desert
An Exercise for Lent and other Sacred Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2004
“This is no simple ‘how-to' book, but rather a profound challenge to consider a totally different kind of life. Lawrence Hart approaches these life changes from several different angles—each leading to the deep kind of knowing that is God's gift to the true seeker.”
—from the Foreword by...