Liturgy & Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liturgy & Power write by Flanagan, Brian P.. This book was released on 2017-05-18. Liturgy & Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Liturgical Power
Liturgical Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liturgical Power write by Nicholas Heron. This book was released on 2017-11-28. Liturgical Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is Christianity exclusively a religious phenomenon, which must separate itself from all things political, or do its concepts actually underpin secular politics? To this question, which animated the twentieth-century debate on political theology, Liturgical Power advances a third alternative. Christian anti-politics, Heron contends, entails its own distinct conception of politics. Yet this politics, he argues, assumes the form of what today we call “administration,” but which the ancients termed “economics.” The book’s principal aim is thus genealogical: it seeks to understand our current conception of government in light of an important but rarely acknowledged transformation in the idea of politics brought about by Christianity. This transformation in the idea of politics precipitates in turn a concurrent shift in the organization of power; an organization whose determining principle, Heron contends, is liturgy—understood in the broad sense as “public service.” Whereas until now only liturgy’s acclamatory dimension has made the concept available for political theory, Heron positions it more broadly as a technique of governance. What Christianity has bequeathed to political thought and forms, he argues, is thus a paradoxical technology of power that is grounded uniquely in service.
The Power of Godliness
The Power of Godliness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Power of Godliness write by Jonathan A. Stapley. This book was released on 2018. The Power of Godliness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A church's liturgy is its ritualized system of worship, the services and patterns in which believers regularly participate. While the term often refers to a specific formal ritual like the Roman Catholic Mass, events surrounding major life events--birth, coming of age, marriage, death--are often celebrated through church liturgies. By documenting and analyzing Mormon liturgical history, Jonathan Stapley is able to explore the nuances of Mormon belief and practice. More important, he can demonstrate that the Mormon ordering of heaven and earth is not a mere philosophical or theological exercise. The Power of Godliness is the first work to establish histories for these unique liturgies and to provide interpretive frameworks for them.
The Liturgy
The Liturgy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Liturgy write by Corinna Laughlin . This book was released on 2018. The Liturgy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Catholic Church teaches that the celebration of the liturgy is the “source and summit of the Christian life” (Lumen gentium, 11). Participating in the liturgy—the Mass, the Liturgy of the Hours, the sacramental rites, blessings, and other official rites—is the most important act of Catholic Christians, for it is through the liturgy that the faithful give praise to God, thank him for his blessings, and go forth strengthened and challenged to life as Christ’s disciples in the world. This easy-to-read resource explores what it means to call liturgy “source and summit.” It will help the Catholic faithful to understand the meaning of the liturgy and its importance to our life of faith, experience Christ’s four-fold presence in the various Church rites, come to a deeper relationship with God, and reflect on the transforming power of the liturgy to change the world.
The Liturgy of Life
The Liturgy of Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Liturgy of Life write by Ricky Manalo. This book was released on 2014-12-30. The Liturgy of Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Everyday worship practices—from praying the rosary to moments of recognizing the beauty of God's creation, from being moved by the power of music to praying Vespers on an iPad—not only take place at different locations and during different days of the week but also dynamically interact with one another. The Liturgy of Life examines the interrelationship between the practice of Sunday Eucharist and the many nonofficial worship practices that mark the everyday lives of Christians who continually negotiate the boundaries of official teaching on liturgy. Drawing on the writings of theologians and sociologists of lived religion and data from an ethnographic research project, this timely work stretches the contextual horizon of liturgical scholarship and presents a provocative and dynamic paradigm of Christian worship for the twenty-first century.
