Category: Brief Book Review
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Brief Book Review: Mary and the Liturgical Year
NEIL XAVIER O’DONOGHUE — “Harmon provides readers with a survey of Mary’s role in the Church’s liturgical prayer from the earliest evidence through to our own day.”
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Brief Book Review: Tilling the Church
DAVID STOSUR — “On the heels of the devastating clergy sexual abuse crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic in the Catholic Church, Lennan provides a hopeful but also realistic image of “tilling” the church, as one would till the earth to promote ongoing growth and renewed life.”
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Brief Book Review: Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe
RHODA SCHULER — “…the editor claims that “scholarship on the Protestant reformations have come to a watershed moment,” arguing “that the lives and works of women have a place in the shaping of the field” (xxiv), and the majority of scholars writing about women reformers in this volume are women.”
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Brief Book Review: The Eucharist in Four Dimensions
In the end, Martin makes us look long and hard about the bread and wine, all the words and gestures, the participants, the choreography ancient, later modified by reformers, and the contemporary efforts at making it relevant.
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Brief Book Review: Rome and the Invention of the Papacy
Anyone interested in the development of the papacy over these centuries, especially in its interrelation of Roman culture, developing theology, ecclesiology, and liturgy, should read this book.
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Brief Book Review: Monotheism in Christian Liturgy
This small monograph is part of the Cambridge Elements series on Religion and Monotheism. As such, it will be of particular interest to those exploring the theological significance of the Christian confession “that there is one God worthy of worship” (1).
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Brief Book Review: The Church’s Book
For readers of Pray Tell, East focuses on scripture’s central context as the mission and worship of the community of Jesus Christ. The scriptural canon is for the church and for the upbuilding of the church.
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Book Review: When Church Stops Working
A specially designed, shorter text, aimed at reaching ordinary people, clergy as well as lay, in serious reading and reflection on the local church, namely the parish.
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Book Review: Unruly Saint
One of most passionate accounts of Dorothy’s great love for Christ and for the suffering sister and brother before us.