“Allen asks the reader to consider the worship they participate in both in practice and its history to consider how it might be shaped and informed by these new commitments.”
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Category: Brief Book Review
Book Review: Losing Church
“A perceptive and personal account of what has happened in the country and in the church as well as in our families and circles of friends in the past two years.”
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Brief Book Review: The Mysticism of the Present Moment
“Mendonça intensively contemplates what is most human as what is integral to spirituality.”
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Brief Book Review: Evangelical Worship: An American Mosaic
“Ross’s ethnographic work on addresses a significant gap of ‘on the ground’ research in the larger field of liturgical and worship studies.”
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Book Review: From Isolation to Community
“Werntz has provided a real gift in a time of not just isolation but suspicion and division.”
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Brief Book Review: The Euchalogion Unveiled
“The volume…expands our understanding of the ‘mysteries’ of the Church by using older lists of what was considered a ‘sacrament.'”
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Brief Book Review: Theology, Music, & Modernity
“The book represents a deep engagement by theologians and musicologists with each other and, together, with ‘matters of religion and theology.'”
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Brief Book Review: Living under Water
“Diverse, compelling, and filled with pastoral and ecumenical wisdom.”
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Brief Book Review: Verbum ac Spiritus
McCarthy presents a grounded theology of liturgical presiding, as well as principles for planning and/or re-organizing liturgical space in contemporary churches.
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Brief Book Review: A History of Christian Conversion
“A presentation of conversion as a key expressive element in the way Christianity itself was perceived and communicated at any one time, place, and culture.”
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