“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: 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: Death by Baptism
Honeycutt confronts head-on truncated understandings of baptism as “fire insurance” against eternity in hell or as supernatural guarantee against misfortune.
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Brief Book Review: Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music
“There is sacred power in pop music, and it is worthy of scholarly attention.”
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Book Review: Prayer Takes Us Home
Lohfink offers thoughtful analysis of what the prayer of petition does to us, how it widens our perception of the needs of others as well as ourselves, how it makes us aware of how helpless we often are.
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Brief Book Review: The Canterbury Book of New Parish Prayers
“Here is a highly-visible liturgist and author offering the Church a collection of excellent new prayers.”
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Brief Book Review: The Pattern of Our Days
Julia Upton reviews The Pattern of Our Days.
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Brief Book Review: From Easter to Holy Week
“The story Moore tells is one of definite, even triumphant, progress in the direction of recovery of the full liturgical richness of Holy Week.”
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Brief Book Review: The Meal That Reconnects
Eating and drinking eucharistically, without concern for the lived experience of the most vulnerable calls into question the directive to “Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.”
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Brief Book Review: Musical Scores and the Eternal Present
This book is for the adventurous mind that is open to exploring a wide range of sometimes tangential topics.
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