Ritual Practices category: 1070 books
Martin Luther and the Seven Sacraments
A Contemporary Protestant Reappraisal
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This introduction to Martin Luther's sacramental theology addresses a central question in the life of the church and in ecumenical dialogue. Although Luther famously reduced the sacraments from seven to two (baptism and the Lord's Supper), he didn't completely dismiss the others. Instead, he positively...
Flee, Be Silent, Pray
Ancient Prayers for Anxious Christians
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
What if prayer could be simple rather than strenuous?
Anxious, results-driven Christians can never pray enough, serve enough, or study enough. But what if God is calling us not to frenzied activity but to a simple spiritual encounter? What if we must merely receive what God has already given...
Conflicts of Devotion
Liturgical Poetics in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Who will mourn with me? Who will break bread with me? Who is my neighbor? In the wake of the religious reformations of the sixteenth century, such questions called for a new approach to the communal religious rituals and verses that shaped and commemorated many of the brightest and darkest moments...
Christian Goddess Spirituality
Enchanting Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This monograph focuses on "Christian Goddess Spirituality" (CGS), the phenomenon of (mostly) women who combine Christianity and Goddess Spirituality, including Wicca/Witchcraft. Mary Ann Beavis’s study provides ethnographic data and analysis on the lived religious experience of CGS practitioners,...
The Book of Waking Up
Experiencing the Divine Love That Reorders a Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
We all have our habits to "help" when life gets hard. Yet there's only one force that can offer us true healing from life's pain. Join award-winning writer Seth Haines in The Book of Waking Up for a guided experience into the Divine Love of God that transforms a life.
The inevitable...
by J. Brent Bill
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
An invitation to experience more fully the life-changing power of sacred silence
For over a decade, J. Brent Bill's Holy Silence has been regarded as a contemporary classic on sacred silence. With warmth, wisdom, and gentle humor, Bill presents the Quaker practice of silence and expectant...
The Cabana Chronicles Conversations About God Comparing Christian Denominations
The Cabana Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2018
The various mainline Christian denominations are discussed by a group of retirees meeting each week under a cabana on the beach at South Padre Island, Texas. This book is one of a number of books comprising The Cabana Chronicles series of books on comparative religion and apologetics, the systematic and logical defense of the Christian religion.
Saints in Exile
The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 1999
Saints in Exile studies, from an insider's perspective, the worship practices and social ethics of the African American family of Holiness, Pentecostal, and Apostolic churches known collectively as the Sanctified Church. Cheryl Sanders identifies the theme of exile, both as an idea and an experience,...
American Possessions
Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Stories of contemporary exorcisms are largely met with ridicule, or even hostility. Sean McCloud argues, however, that there are important themes to consider within these narratives of seemingly well-adjusted people who attend school, go shopping, watch movies, and also happen to fight demons. American...
Our Lady of Emmitsburg, Visionary Culture, and Catholic Identity
Seeing and Believing
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This ethnography explores the community of believers in a series of Marian apparitions in rural Emmitsburg, Maryland, asking what it means to call oneself a Catholic and child of Our Lady in this context, what it means to believe in an apparition, and what it means to communicate with divine presence...
No More Whacky Worship
God's Revival Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
No More Whacky Worship
Series: God's Revival Series
Volume 1
Page Count: Approximately 182 pages (in print)
Much of our worship is "whacky". Whacky, meaning that it's worship that does not make true spiritual sense. "No More Whacky Worship" is a no...
Worship on Earth as It Is in Heaven
Exploring Worship as a Spiritual Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Rory Noland addresses the challenges of Christian worship head-on, offering practical suggestions gleaned from Scripture on understanding and experiencing vibrant worship. The first half of Worship on Earth as It Is in Heaven explores what it means to grow as a private worshiper. The practices of...
Season of Change
Seasons of Grace, #3
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
The season of Lent challenges us to consciously enter into a process of changing, to let go of selfish attitudes . . . and to grow closer to God!
All of life is change and transition. Yet, because change entails an ending and a loss even in the most joyful events, many people find themselves...
Did the Anglicans and Roman Catholics Agree on the Eucharist?
A Revisit of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission’s Agreed Statements of 1971 and Related Documents
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Fifty-two years ago [in 1966] Archbishop Michael Ramsey of Canterbury visited Rome and agreed with the Pope to inaugurate an Anglican-Roman Catholic theological dialogue. Three phases of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) resulted and continue to this day. ARCIC I agreed...