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In This Issue: Liturgy 37, no. 4 (2022) “Renewals in Retrospect”

November 17, 2022 Editor In This Issue Liturgy

Fifty Years of Worship Scholarship amidst the Changing Worlds of Worship

Book Review: The Church after Innovation

For Root, the wholehearted adoption by the church of an ethic of innovation and entrepreneurship goes against everything the church is.

Book Review: An Ecumenical Priesthood

November 9, 2022 Other Voices Brief Book Review Church Reform Ecumenism Liturgical Movement Lutheran Liturgy Ordained Ministry Recently Published Books Vatican II

“Rinderknecht has done us all a great service here both in his lucid translation and thoughtful commentary. This is a little sign of ecumenical spring.”

Brief Book Review: The Art of Gathering

November 2, 2022 Other Voices Brief Book Review Eucharist Recently Published Books

“The author’s commentary can open up the reader’s thinking about ways in which we’ve made this holy meal into something mundane and meaningless by obsessing over efficiency, hygiene, or narrow theological thinking.”

Brief Book Review: Rethinking Catholic Devotions

October 26, 2022 Other Voices Brief Book Review Initiation / RCIA Popular Piety Recently Published Books

“The author offers the beginning reader a helpful vision for situating Catholic devotional practice in the Christian life, without falling into superstition and problematic practices that eclipse the redemptive power of the paschal mystery.”

Amen Corner: The Fijian Meal Tradition

October 24, 2022 Other Voices Amen Corner Eucharist Inculturation Pope Francis Presiding Sacramental Theology Teaching Liturgy

Could aspects of Fijian cultural meals be incorporated into the church’s eucharistic tradition?

Brief Book Review: Holy Communion in Contagious Times

October 19, 2022 Other Voices Brief Book Review Recently Published Books Technology and Worship

“What we have learned and experienced during the COVID pandemic has influenced and will continue to influence how we worship, even when the doors are open and all health restrictions have been withdrawn.”

Brief Book Review: New Church, New Altar

October 12, 2022 Other Voices Art and Architecture Brief Book Review Do It Rite Recently Published Books Translation / New Missal

“A thoroughly documented historical and liturgical commentary and a most helpful pastoral guide to the celebration of this ritual for the dedication of a church and an altar.”

Brief Book Review: A Womanist Theology of Worship

October 5, 2022 Other Voices Black Catholic Liturgy Brief Book Review Ecumenism Inculturation Recently Published Books

“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.”

In This Issue: Worship 96 (October 2022)

September 30, 2022 Editor In This Issue Worship

Features on art and architecture, liturgy and ethics, neurodiversity, and more.

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