Prepare!: An Ecumenical Music & Worship Planner
by David L Bone and Mary Scifres
This magisterial book examines the changing nature of Christian worship from the earliest years of the New Testament to the liquid modern world. Discounting any notion of an idealized vision of past which each generation seeks to recreate, this groundbreaking book shows that the nature of worship has always involved compromise with public life and has borrowed from the drama of the theatre. He reveals how worship evolved and changed through the great east-west divide, the Renaissance, the Enligh...
Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans--as Augustine noted--are "desiring agents," full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love. James K. A. Smith focuses on the themes of liturgy and desire in Desiring the Kingdom, the first book in what will be a three-volume set on the theology of culture. He redirects our yearnings to focus on the greatest good: God. Ultimately, Smith seeks to re-visio...
A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634
by Bartolome de Alva, Barry D Sell, John Frederick Schwaller, and Lu Ann Homza
Sacrum Septenarium; Or, the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost as Exemplified in the Life and Person ...
by Henry Formby
