Contents: Introduction -- Living the Old, Old Story: The Basic Outline of Liturgy -- Cosmic Daytimer: How the Liturgical Calendar Can Bring Order to Our Lives -- Life Together: How the Liturgy Draws Us into Community -- The Intimate Other: How the Liturgy Helps Us Meet a Holy and Loving God -- If You Don't Get It, You've Got It: The Liturgy as a Mystery Full of Meaning -- A More Real Culture: How the Liturgy is More Relevant Than We Can Imagine -- Bizarre Holy Moments: How the Liturgy Reshapes Our Sense of Time -- What You Don't See Is What You Get: How the Liturgy Changes Our Sense of Place -- Little Stillness: How the Liturgy Guides Us into Focused Grace -- We Worship a Material Savior: Why the Liturgy Engages the Whole Body -- Learning by Laughing: How the Liturgy Teaches Us the Faith -- Living in the Trinity: How the Liturgy Changes Us at the Very Core of Our Being -- Drunken Sobriety: How the Liturgy Helps Us to Know God with Imagination -- Words of Living W-A-T-E-R: The Liturgy as Poetic Reality that Transforms -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix A: A Liturgy Primer -- Appendix B: Liturgy Compared Across Traditions -- Appendix C: The Christian Year -- Notes -- About Paraclete Press.
Author quotes and endorses a definition of liturgy which stresses that "liturgy is a standard and not a contrived ritual. We do not make it up as we go along. It is not a celebration of the individual but for the whole Christian community. Good liturgy is ritualistic. The ritual activity is formal, uses sacred symbols, and is traditional. It carries over time and is similar from place to place. Liturgy is a celebration of the community and is not based on one individual's personal philosophy". "Music is key in a worship service. ... Yet it is around the area of music that unfortunately most expressions of dissatisfaction occur. Certainly within our setting, the common source of discontent among church music lies in the generational gap". "It may be that we have already paid the price. The steady decline in worship attendance is no fiction. It may be in chasing the latest fad, we have contributed to that decline. It is our role as stewards to craft a liturgically sound worship service. Do that and the people will come to worship. The evidence, if we look for it, exists and astonishingly the generational divide disappears".
The author was "Lutheran Chaplain to the University of Western Ontario and Associate Pastor, Trinity Lutheran Church, London, Ontario when she wrote this article".
"This book is in some way a continuation of what I had started in [The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb]. It is an expansion of the last chapter, `Liturgy as Spiritual Discipline for Leadership in a Multicultural Community.' .... In this book, I attempt to provide a theological justification for developing multicultural communities". -- Preface, p. ix.
Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- A Fire that Consumed: The 1992 Los Angeles Riots -- The Bush Was Blazing, But Not Consumed: In Search of God in the Fire -- Fire as Divine Judgment and Purification -- Obsession over the Unholy Fire -- The Golden Calf Syndrome -- Up and Down the Tower Babel: Another Vision of a Multicultural Community -- Coming Down from Our Tower of Babel: Examining Our Ethnocentrism -- Tending the Burning Bush on Level Ground: Maintaining Ethnorelativism -- Today I Set Before You Life and Death .. Choose Life ! -- Lighting, Sanctifying, and Maintaining the Holy Fire Through Dialogue -- Differences in Communication Styles and the Dialogue Process -- Dialogue as Liturgy -- Appendix A; An Intercultural Dialogue/Worship Service -- Appendix B: A Five-Session Intercultural Dialogue Program -- Appendix C: A Dialogue Process: Focusing on Differences in Communication Styles -- Appendix D: Techniques for Managing a Bilingual Gathering -- Appendix E: Teaching a Congregation to Sing a New Song.
The author is an ordained Episcopal priest currently licensed to the diocese of New Westminster.
This book "maps this globally circulating movement of women's rites, gives voice to the women activists in it, and features liturgies created and celebrated by fourteen communities of women in different parts of the world. At its conclusion, the book identifies a theological challenge embodied in these women-identified communities and their celebrations. I will claim the vibrant growth of these communities and the knowledge inscribed in their liturgies as a defining site for theological reflection in our time, born in the crucible of women's rites". -- Intro., p. [1].
Contents: Preface -- Introduction : Mapping the Global Struggle for Women's Rites / Teresa Berger -- Come Sophia-Spirit : WATER in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. / Diann L. Neu -- Women Rise Up , Close Ranks ! : Talitha Cumi in Lima, Peru / Rosanna Panizo -- Dissident Daughters Celebrate : Women and Worship at Fitzroy Uniting Church, Melbourne, Australia / Coralie Ling -- Celebrating Women's Power : Oecumenische Vrouwensynoden in the Netherlands / Denise J.J. Dijk -- We Are the Daughters of God : in Seoul, Korea / Sook Ja Chung -- Ritual That Transforms : The Women's Centre at Brescia College, London, Ontario, Canada / Patricia McLean -- Springtime : September in Chile : The Collective Con-spirando in Santiago, Chile / Ute Seibert -- Women Gather for Worship : The Catholic Women's Network in Clapham, London, United Kingdom / Veronica Seddon -- God Our Sister and Friend : Kvennakirkjan in Reykjavik, Iceland / Audur Eir Vilhjalmsdottir -- Air Moves Us : Frauenstudien-und-bildungszentrum in Gelnhausen, Germany / Ninna Edgardh Beckman -- Lady Wisdom as Hostess for the Lord's Supper : Sofia-massor in Stockholm, Sweden / Herta Leistner -- African Women : Arise and Eat, for Your Journey is Long : The Ecumenical Seminars on African Women's Theologies in South Africa and Mozambique / Pauline Muchina and Jana Meyer -- Pista-Lakbayan : Celebrating the Journey to Shalom in the Year of Jubilee : The Ecumenical Women's Festival in Quezon City, Philippines / Elizabeth S. Tapia -- Like Water in a Desert : Women Church in South Africa / Wilma Jakobsen -- Postscript : Liturgy in Women's Hands : A New Site / Teresa Berger.
Contributor Wilma Terry Jakobsen is an Anglican priest.
"This is a book about welcoming, about hospitality as a way of life. The theme of hospitality is central because we live in a world in which the church cannot sustain itself from within. If, as followers of Christ, we expect to continue to gather around Christ's Holy Table as a way of expressing our commitment to the ministry to which Christ call us, we must welcome the newcomer, proclaiming the good news to the huge population yet untouched by its promise of life eternal". -- Preface, p. 11.
Contents: An Introductory Word -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Why Worship ? : The Relationship between Worship and Christian Service -- Why this book ? : Leading Worship in the Context of the Baptismal Covenant -- Part One: The Church and Its Ministry: Restoring the Wholeness of God's Creation -- Part Two: Liturgical Hospitality: Setting a Place at the Table for All God's Children -- Part Three: Liturgical Ministries: Setting God's Table for the Feast of the Kingdom -- Part Four: Programmatic Strategies: Changing the Rules in Community.
Author is an Episcopal priest and "the Episcopal Church's staff officer for liturgy and music". -- back cover.
"The presupposition of this book is bold .... By training and by personal inclination and conviction I am persuaded that the liturgical movement, at its best, has the potential for reforming the church of our day as dramatically as did the reformation of earlier centuries. I am convinced that such reformation is badly needed and will bear much fruit. On the other hand, I am always aware of the oppression of women in a patriarchal church and society. I am always aware that the world is not safe for women. Women are abused, achieve too little, and die too young. I am also aware of the church's complicity in that suffering and I am always appalled by the needlessness of it. I am convinced that the feminist movement is causing a change of profound significance for the church's future. I am further convinced that to enable that movement is to hasten the church's healing and the healing of the church's witness to the world". -- Intro., pp. 9-10.
The author, a retired pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, reflects on the experience of worship in the light of a recent experience as an actor in an amateur theatrical production in his parish. The director said: "As a public performer ... you've got to assume responsibility for a ceaseless self-critical examination of what you're doing. For what you're doing relative to the other players on stage. For what you're doing, from moment to moment, to advance the momentum and meaning of the performance of the play". Similarly, the author agrees with Soren Kierkegaard that worshippers should feel and be active, not passive, participants in liturgy. "[E]very worship who walks in the door should feel invited 'on stage'. You may not want to accept the invitation. You may prefer to sit in the last role and observe or even judge. But you should feel invited on stage, as one of the participants. Christian worship is radically participatory."
"First edition c1979 the Seabury Press, Inc. Revised edition c2000 by Morehouse Publishing." -- verso of t.-p.
"Our intention [in the first 1979 edition] was to offer to the Episcopal Church a basic book on the liturgy that would be useful to laity and clergy of the church with regard to the history and theology of Christian, and specifically Anglican, worship. We also wanted the book to help readers to understand more fully the pastoral and theological implications of the then proposed Book of Common Prayer. .... The first edition was reprinted several times, and demand for the book, especially for use in programs of lay education and for candidates studying in seminary, has never ceased. We were therefore delighted when Morehouse approached us about the possibility of publishing a second edtion. Unfortunately, Professor Price died before our work of revision was complete. We had been in consultation by telephone about the changes that Morehouse Publishing had requested. In only a few cases were revisions or clarifications of fact made for this new edition. Otherwise, our concern was to make modest but necessary editorial changes, including references to the `new' Prayer Book." -- Preface [to Revised Edition], pp. vi-vii.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Dedication -- Preface [to Revised Edition] dated Berkeley, California, September 2000 / Louis Weil -- Abbreviations of the Books of the Bible -- Note to the Reader -- Prologue -- 1. Where We Are -- Part One : The Meaning of Worship -- 2. Worship and Liturgy -- 3. The Basis of Liturgy -- 4. Features of Liturgy -- 5. Implications and Consequences of Liturgy -- Part Two : Liturgy and the Book of Common Prayer -- 6. The Background of the Prayer Book -- 7. Anglican Prayer Books -- Part Three : Christian Initiation: Baptism and Confirmation -- 8. Holy Baptism -- 9. Confirmation -- Part Four : Regular Services: Daily Offices, Holy Eucharist -- Introduction -- 10. The Word of God and the Bible -- 11. The Word of God in the Liturgy -- 12. Morning and Evening Prayer in Today's Church -- 13. The Holy Eucharist (I) : The Proclamation of the Word of God -- 14. The Holy Eucharist (II) : The Holy Communion -- 15. The Holy Eucharist (III) : Theories About the Eucharist -- 16. The Christian Calendar -- Part Five : Other Liturgies: Pastoral Offices and Episcopal Services -- Introduction -- 17. Pastoral Offices (I) : For Marriage, Birth, Sickness, and Death -- 18. Pastoral Offices (II) : For Reconciliation and Commitment -- 19. Episcopal Services -- Epilogue -- 20. Living the Liturgy -- Notes -- Glossary of Liturgical Terms -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Bibliography for Further Reading -- Internet Resources -- Index.
"Written by Charles P. Price and Louis Weil with the assistance of a group of editorial advisors under the direction of the Church's Teaching Series Committee".
Foreword by John M. Allin.
Introduction by Alan Jones.
Includes bibliographical references, bibliography (p. 332-337) and index.
"In this volume, we have tried to do three things. In the first place, we have tried to be informative. We have sought to provide data about the development of Christian worship, and particularly Anglican worship. .... Our second purpose is really an outgrowth of the first. We hav tried to set the new Book of Common Prayer firmly in the context of this theological and historical development. We have not intended to produce a commentary on the new Prayer Book, but it is obviously impossible to discuss worship in the American Episcopal Church today without saying a great deal about the new book. .... The third goal of this book is by all odds the most important. We hope that it will help its readers better to understand the intimate, indissoluble, and mutally influential relationship between worship and living." -- Preface, pp. xiii-xiv.
Contents divided into seven main sections: Prologue -- Part One : The Meaning of Worship -- Part Two : Liturgy and the Book of Common Prayer -- Part Three : Christian Initiation: Baptism and Confirmation -- Part Four : Regular Services: Daily Offices, Holy Eucharist -- Part Five : Other Liturgies: Pastoral Offices and Episcopal Services -- Epilogue.
Contents: Preface / Charles P. Price and Louis Weil -- Where We Are -- Worship and Liturgy -- The Basis of Liturgy -- Features of Liturgy -- Implications and Consequences of Liturgy -- The Background of the Prayer Book -- Anglican Prayer Books -- Holy Baptism -- Confirmation -- Introduction -- The Word of God and the Bible -- The Word of God in the Liturgy -- Morning and Evening Prayer in Today's Church -- The Holy Eucharist (I) : The Proclamation of the Word of God -- The Holy Eucharist (II) : The Holy Communion -- The Holy Eucharist (III) : Theories About the Eucharist -- The Christian Calendar -- Introduction -- Pastoral Offices (I) : For Marriage, Birth, Sickness, and Death -- Pastoral Offices (II) : For Reconciliation and Commitment -- Episcopal Services -- Living the Liturgy -- Notes -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Abbreviations of the Books of the Bible -- Glossary of Liturgical Terms -- Bibliography for Further Reading -- Index.