Ritual Practices category: 1070 books
Christian Ethics
The End of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
Christian Ethics provides a biblical, historical, philosophical and theological guide to the field of Christian ethics. Prominent theologian David S. Cunningham explores the tradition of ‘virtue ethics’ in this creative and lively text, which includes literary and musical references as well as...
A Practical Christianity
Meditations for the Season of Lent
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
A Practical Christianity: Meditations for the Season of Lent is a devotional book that challenges readers to take up “practical Christianity”—proposing Christian faith as something we do, not something we merely believe in. The starting point for Christianity lies within its practice, says the...
by Ron Browning
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Welcoming people into the community of faith in this edge-centre dynamic gives rise to fresh directions of Christian life. Six such directions are explored.
A Lyrical Vision
The Musical Documents of the US Bishops
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The publication of the US Bishops' document on music in the liturgy, Sing to the Lord (2007), has prompted Edward Foley to review the overall contribution of the Bishops to liturgical music since Vatican Council II. He explores the history and content of the US Bishops’ three previous statements...
Ready to Share One Bread
Preparing Children for Holy Communion
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
A 'one-stop shop' for churches considering the admission of children to Holy Communion The Church of England has allowed the admission of baptised children to Holy Communion before confirmation since 1997 but currently only about 20% of parishes currently do so. There is therefore much scope for many...
by Owen F. Cummings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Offers an in-depth, “right-brain” approach to liturgical theology.
Attending the Dying
A Handbook of Practical Guidelines
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Megory Anderson was called to a vigil at the bedside of a friend who was dying one night. That experience was so powerful that she began working with others who needed help attending to those who were dying. Today Anderson is the executive director of the Sacred Dying Foundation in San Francisco,...
Quaker Quicks - What Do Quakers Believe?
A religion of everyday life
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
"So what do you believe?" It's the question Quakers are always asked first and the one they find hardest to answer, because they don't have an official list of beliefs. And Quakerism is a religion of doing, not thinking. They base their lives on equality and truth; they work for peace, justice...
Missa Est!:
A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The twenty-first-century church cannot afford to neglect mission. When church and culture no longer share a common outlook, the only way forward is mission. Pope Francis recognizes this in his call for a missionary conversion of the church. Responding to this invitation, Missa Est! is a constructive...
by Craig A. Satterlee, Lester Ruth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Creative preaching can help you move the sacraments to the center of your congregation's spirituality by making scripture, personal experience, and the sacraments intersect in such a way that a wealth of meanings surfaces. Satterlee and Ruth seek to expand the range of meanings and associations people...
Keeping Time
The Church's Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Keeping Time, written by Gail Ramshaw and Mons Teig, explores why Christians have different ways of looking at time, at how the life of the church is ordered and organized by days, weeks, seasons, and years. Provides detailed information about Sundays, festivals, seasons, and commemorations as well as daily prayer.
Daniel Fast Desserts
A Tempting Assortment of Dessert Meals That Will Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
The 50 Daniel Fast Dessert Recipes offers the most scrumptious and delicious array of desserts. Some of these recipes come with a quick and easy to prepare tag line and are life savers for busy bees who are planning to practice the Daniel Fast.
If you are craving something delicious...
by Abdul-Malik Mujahid
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Everyday we faced the threats that shake us just a bit or rock us from the foundation of our being at other times. Such sections make us wonder whether we can remain steadfast and much on!
Narrated Sufyaan Ibn Abdullah (R.A): " I said to Messenger of Allah, 'Messenger of Allah,...
Eucharist as Meaning
Critical Metaphysics and Contemporary Sacramental Theology
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
This study moves beyond postmodern trends in Catholic eucharistic theology by exploring the works of Bernard Lonergan and Louis-Marie Chauvet: “Having learned from both Chauvet’s critique of metaphysics and Lonergan’s development of a critical metaphysics, we hope to offer a fruitful understanding...