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Augustine's Life of Prayer, Learning and Love
Learn about Christian life from St Augustine of Hippo (AD 354-430)
Faithful Improvisation?
Faithful and effective church leadership requires preparation in prayer, theological reflection and a wide range of pastoral, prophetic and practical skills in order to ensure that what the Church discerns as necessary the Church does. Faithful Improvisation? is both a contribution to a current and sometimes vigorous debate on how the Church trains its leaders and also a practical and theological resource for discerning what the Spirit is saying and then acting upon it in local church contexts. Part One includes the full text of the Senior Church Leadership report from the Faith and Order Commission. Part Two offers reflections by Cally Hammond, Thomas Seville, Charlotte Methuen, Jeremy Morr...
Glorious Christianity
In Glorious Christianity, Cally Hammond invites you to think and pray deeply about the primary, foundational belief of Christianity - the resurrection of Jesus - and how you can live your life in the light of it. Her book will help you to make sense of the stresses of human living and dying, to explore what it means to believe in the hidden glories of heaven and to live more positively by faith in the life to come. Especially helpful to those facing questions arising from death and bereavement, the book is also ideal for church study groups, with discussion questions and a prayer at the end of each chapter.
Joyful Christianity
Cally Hammond invites the reader to experience afresh the events before, during and after Jesus' birth as portrayed in the Gospel of Luke: the annunciation, the visitation, the nativity, the presentation in the Temple, the finding in the Temple. She leads us to discover new depths of meaning, to develop a deeper commitment to our faith, and to meet the challenges of life with joyful Christianity.
The Sound of the Liturgy
Cally Hammond looks at how words function as carriers of semantic content (communicating facts and doctrines; telling stories; articulating emotions and spiritual perceptions) and then contrasts this with words as they function as physical entities striking the ear, so as to evoke emotions, memories and spiritual perceptions. This basic antithesis between words as carriers of meaning and words as evokers of feeling, emotion, and memory leads to four chapters that explore in fascinating detail the four main aspects of liturgical speech: posture, repetition, rhythm and punctuation.
Faithful Improvisation
Faithful Improvisation is both a contribution to a current vigorous debate about how the Church trains its leaders and a practical and theological resource for discerning what the Spirit is saying and then acting upon it in local church contexts.
Lively Oracles of God
This book reexamines what we often take for granted: how Scripture is presented to worshipers; how it is heard, especially by those with little experience of the life of the church; Scripture’s role in mediating the great narratives of incarnation and redemption at the high points of the year; where Scripture meets people in ritual transition; how the Bible itself provides the language of much public prayer. Contributors also consider how the relationship between Scripture and liturgy is tested by new priorities—the climate crisis, the inclusion and protection of children, the recognition and honoring of those who find themselves on the margins of the church, and the significance of gender and identity in all areas of the church’s life. This book does not offer definitive statements. It is an invitation to a wide audience to engage in new conversations with their practice of worship.
After Lives
A fascinating exploration of ideas of life after death ranging from ancient times to the present and from religion and philosophy to literature and science.
Thinking Again About Marriage
What is involved in the practice of thinking theologically about marriage? Key writers and thinkers offer an informed, considered and constructive guide to a number of central questions, including: • Mike Higton on marriage, gender and Christian doctrine • Charlotte Metheun on what we can learn from the history of marriage • Ben Fulford on thinking about marriage with scripture • Julie Gittoes on the liturgical theology of marriage • John Bradbury on marriage as vocation • Brett Gray on reproduction and the body's grace • Susannah Cornwall on being faithful to our sexuate bodies • Rachel Muers on developing a contemporary theology of marriage and much more Reflecting a broad theological and eccesiological spectrum within the Christian tradition, Thinking Again About Marriage offers a vital resource for critical thinking and reflective practice.
Encounters in Ethnomusicology
Philip V. Bohlman's impact on the scope and meaning of ethnomusicology is difficult to overstate. His influence is manifest not only in his numerous publications, his service to the discipline, and his presence at institutions and gatherings across the globe, but also in the work of his students. This volume, featuring essays written by his students and peers, honors his enormous contributions to the discipline by focusing on three analytic lenses through which Bohlman's work has excavated the complexities of encounter - ethics, memory, and performance. The essays engaging ethics treat topics including scholarship as activism, the power/politics of knowledge, and the ethics of musical practi...
