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Sunset Christianity
Framed as a memoir, Sunset Christianity offers a series of reflections on Christian post-secondary pedagogy in the 21st century. What do students bring to the university religion classroom? What experience, what knowledge, what attitudes toward religion and religious people? How can their resistance to the danger of any but the most namby-pamby sharing be overcome? How can their horror at the evils of religion in human culture, past and present, often the product of "secularization theory," be assuaged? Using the insights of anthropologists and the sociologists who study "lived religion," Forell Marshall draws on her extensive experience as a literary historian, hymn writer and poet. The com...
English Congregational Hymns in the Eighteenth Century
Historians of the English congregational hymn, focusing on its literary or theological aspects, have usually found the genre out of step with the rationalist era that produced it. This book takes a more balanced approach to the work of four writers and concludes that only eighteenth-century Britain, with its understanding of public verse, common truth, and the utility of poetry, could have invented the English hymn as we know it. The early hymns sought to inspire, teach, stir, and entertain congregations. The essential purpose shifted slightly in line with each poet's setting and in accord with the poetic thought of his day. For Isaac Watts's Independents, powerful traditional imagery was ap...
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ABC of Care
Madeleine Marshall, a retired literature and religious studies professor, explains what it is like to care for a profoundly disabled loved one for many years at home. With grace and good humor she shares the joys and sorrows, the frustrations and the difficulties and even the adventure of home care. This book is helpful practically for anyone who is suddenly responsible for home nursing. It helps family and friends understand the challenges. Medical professionals who read these pages will learn what really goes on when they discharge a gravely disabled patient home. Pastors, priests and rabbis and members of their communities will learn to support home care givers and lighten their loads. It is arranged alphabetically, by topic, in short sections, accessible to the busy caregiver.
Assembly Song Companion to All Creation Sings
Assembly Song Companion to All Creation Sings will be an essential reference resource for church musicians, pastors, and others who help plan assembly song. This accessible manual gives the context, origins, and character of the texts and tunes in All Creation Sings as well as practical guidance for musical leaders. It is especially useful when paired with the Hymnal Companion to ELW and the Musicians Guide to ELW.
The Poetry of Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674-1737)
This volume is devoted to the work of Elizabeth Singer Rowe, a poet once greatly admired by such writers as Samuel Johnson, Isaac Watts, and Matthew Prior. It offers a worthy addition to the canon of late 17th-century and early 18th-century literature.
A Soul Prepared for Heaven
From his first publication of hymns in 1707, common knowledge regarding Isaac Watts (1674–1748) often revolves around his hymn-writing legacy. Though Watts legacy as a hymnographer is significant, he also functions as a key transitional figure between the English Puritans and the Evangelicals during eighteenth-century English dissent. As a pastor, theologian, philosopher, and literary mainstay of his era, Watts' influence grew well beyond his early work in hymnody to impact scores of Christians on both sides of the Atlantic. Watts' approach to Christian spirituality is an area of his thought thats been unexplored. This book provides the first ever analysis of Watts' theological vision for the Christian spiritual life. In emphasizing the experience of holiness and happiness, Watts leans heavily upon his Reformed theological heritage to underscore how knowing and loving God are central to God's preparation of the soul for heaven.
Sent and Gathered
Examines worship in church settings around the globe and provides a practical manual for shaping liturgies that are informed by and relevant to contemporary missional contexts.
Gather Into One
valuable gift from other cultures to our own 7 sung prayers that can broaden the ways we pray and sing together in corporate worship. His extensive research leads to some intriguing proposals, with Hawn encouraging diverse expressions of worship, endorsing the church musician as a worship 3enlivener,4 and making a case for 3polyrhythmic worship4 in our churches. A unique resource, Gather into One demonstrates the spiritual riches to be gained through multicultural worship and makes a
Poetry and the Feminine from Behn to Cowper
Poetry and the Feminine from Behn to Cowper revisits the foundations of poetic representation and value for women and men poets of the Restoration and eighteenth century including Aphra Behn, John Dryden, Anne Killigrew, Anne Finch, and Alexander Pope. The author argues that fundamental to poetic innovation in this era are poets' revisions of feminine figures such as the muse and nature. Feminine Nature serves these poets as an infinitely expandable category of form that allows them to redefine poetry and poetic subjectivity. These poetic innovations include exploring the very grounds of mimesis, dismantling the hierarchy of poetic kinds, and using sensibility to yoke aesthetic and ethical values. Using an inclusive framework, the author presents a history of poetic change through women's and men's complex dialogues with poetic contexts and conventions. Jennifer Keith is Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
