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Holy Things

A Liturgical Theology

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

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Holy Things

A Liturgical Theology

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

New in paperback! Cyril of Jerusalem wrote about "holy things." He thereby reflected the communion invitation used in his fourth-century liturgy to call people to "taste and see that the Lord is good" (Mystagogical Catecheses). The present times call for strong and healthy symbols that hold people into hope. The Christian communities need a reintroduction into the ways in which liturgical symbols respond to human need. Indeed, Lathrop argues, Christian communities continually need to reconsider the meaning of their liturgies and reform those liturgies toward authentic clarity. In its three parts, this book (1) proposes that an ecumenical pattern or ordo of worship can be discerned which is also a pattern of meaning, (2) discusses the ways in which meaning occurs in the meeting for worship itself, and (3) draws practical conclusions about the organization of that meeting and its importance to current human need. Throughout, Lathrop undertakes to do theology, that is, to say what the liturgy actually says about God.

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Fortress Press

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145140896X

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Holy Ground

A Liturgical Cosmology

By: Gordon Lathrop

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Holy Ground

A Liturgical Cosmology

By: Gordon Lathrop

Gordon Lathrop explores how the central symbols and interactions of Christian liturgy yield, for their participants, a new understanding and experience of the world. He creatively considers various kinds of worldmaking, the diverse maps, and differing senses of "cosmology" in which we all live. Holy Ground illumines how certain liturgical reforms can contribute to a refreshed sense of ecological ethics - to a Christian sense of the holiness of the earth itself.

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1451408943

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New Proclamation Commentary on Feasts, Holy Days, and Other Celebrations

By: Bill Doggett,Gordon W. Lathrop

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New Proclamation Commentary on Feasts, Holy Days, and Other Celebrations

By: Bill Doggett,Gordon W. Lathrop

New Proclamation Commentary on Feasts, Holy Days, and Other Celebrations continues the tradition of excellent biblical commentary that users of the seasonal New Proclamation volumes have come to expect. This volume offers essential historical background about each of thirty-five so-called lesser feasts and places each day into the context of the church year. Quotes related to the festival day from prayers, liturgies, and other sources have been included to help enliven the sermon and enhance worship, along with other guidance for preaching. Commentary and recommended texts for ten national days and nonliturgical celebrations are also included.

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Fortress Press

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0800662288

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9780800662288

Proclaiming the Living Word

A Handbook for Preachers

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

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Proclaiming the Living Word

A Handbook for Preachers

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

In this handbook, author Gordon Lathrop guides preachers as they think about the central matters and purposes of preaching and engage in preparation for this important task. By providing wise encouragement and concrete tools for ministry, this book will equip preachers for faithful preaching in their assemblies.

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Augsburg Fortress

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1506447902

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The Pastor

A Spirituality

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

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The Pastor

A Spirituality

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

Renowned liturgical theologian Gordon Lathrop has composed a rich, meditative, and explicitly ecumenical spirituality for working pastors ? whatever and wherever they are called: preachers, priests, elders, ministers, seminarians.In Part One Lathrop urges pastors to become lifelong students of the Lord's Prayer, the Apostle's Creed, and the Commandments, continually inhabiting the questions, reversals and paradoxes of Christian life.In Part Two he elaborates on the pastor's chief activities ? presiding at the holy table, preaching, collecting for the poor ? "as the center and focus for pastoral identity and spirituality." Lathrop invites pastors to recenter their busy lives on God and fuel their ministry through prayer.

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0800638018

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9780800638016

Holy People

A Liturgical Ecclesiology

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

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Holy People

A Liturgical Ecclesiology

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

This sequel to Gordon Lathrop's highly successful Holy Things is an exercise in liturgical theology, viewing the activities of worship as a means of defining and discussing the concept ?church.? It centers on community and assembly to discuss the sacraments. It focuses on ecumenism and inculturation as central test cases for a liturgically derived idea of church. In hopes of invigorating the local church, Lathrop explores the meaning of the term ?church, ? the relationship of the local liturgical assembly and other Christian assemblies (catholicity); the personal and communal character of liturgical assembly; the unity of the churches; the critical principles of liturgy and culture; openness to what is radically other; and liturgical evangelization. Lathrop's work grounds a notion of church that is personal yet communal, universal, but not triumphalistic.

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Fortress Press

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1451408951

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The Assembly

A Spirituality

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

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The Assembly

A Spirituality

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

In his previous book, The Pastor: A Spirituality, Gordon W. Lathrop writes: "The most important symbol of Christ in the room is not the minister, not the altar, not even the bread and wine or the water of the font. It is the assembly, the Body of Christ, as the New Testament says" (page 27). This statement forms the central theme of this new book. Reflecting on the recent painful time of pandemic, when the wisest and most caring course was not to assemble at all, has illuminated the author's conviction and strengthened it. But as churches return to in-person worship and life in community, they will need to revisit formation in assembly practice. This book articulates why and how the assembly is so important in Christianity. Lathrop intends the book to assist Christian congregations and their pastors or priests to recover vital, participatory, and life-giving in-person worship after the pandemic. He further intends that participants will see and treasure the importance of assembly as the primary form of "church" and as a vital source of Christian daily life. Part 1 of the book looks in depth at the assembly, discusses why the sacraments are assembly events, and explores how the assembly forms Christians for daily living. Part 2 presents a critical catechism for the assembly, with emphasis on the sacraments, the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and the Ten Commandments.

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1506478824

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Saving Images

The Presence of the Bible in Christian Liturgy

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

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Saving Images

The Presence of the Bible in Christian Liturgy

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

Gordon W. Lathrop explores the place of the Bible as the subject of critical exegesis in contemporary liturgy. The text is grounded in the life of the assembly and the role of intertextuality in its creation. Lathrop finds patterns in biblical narratives that suggest revising our models of the "shape" of liturgy (Dix, Schmemann) and our understanding of baptism, preaching, Eucharist, and congregational prayer.Saving Images calls for a new, reconceived biblical-liturgical movement that takes seriously both biblical scholarship and the mystery at the heart of worship.

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1506406343

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Lectionary Mosaics

Three Readings Juxtaposed for Reflection and Proclamation

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

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Lectionary Mosaics

Three Readings Juxtaposed for Reflection and Proclamation

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

As with viewing a mosaic, the more closely the reader examines this book, the more it shows forth rich meaning and inspiration for preachers, lay readers, and all who desire to encounter Jesus Christ in the scriptures. Holding together all three readings of the Revised Common Lectionary for each Sunday and festival, these brief mosaic paragraphs invite you to faith in the triune God, love of neighbor, and care for our earthly home.

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Augsburg Fortress

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1506495184

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Central Things

Worship in Word and Sacrament

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

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Central Things

Worship in Word and Sacrament

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

A revised and expanded edition of the 1994 classic. In the 10 years since this book was first published, the ELCA has been engaged in the multi-year Renewing Worship initiative. Lathrop's text has been revised to encompass new developments and directions suggested by this churchwide initiative and its provisional phase of development towards a new core worship resource.

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1451408935

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Holy Ground

A Liturgical Cosmology

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

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A Liturgical Cosmology

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

Holy Ground illumines how the central symbols and interactions of Christian liturgy yield a new understanding and experience of the world and contribute to a refreshed sense of ecological ethics-a Christian sense of the holiness of the earth itself.

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1451408919

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Christian Assembly

Marks of the Church in a Pluralistic Age

By: Gordon W. Lathrop,Timothy J. Wengert

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Christian Assembly

Marks of the Church in a Pluralistic Age

By: Gordon W. Lathrop,Timothy J. Wengert

What is "church"? What makes the church one? While these questions may seem innocuous, church has become conflicted territory recently, with internal factions, external pressures, and ecumenical turmoil all calling for a more positive, studier, more resilient notion of Christian community. Wengert approaches the questions as a Reformation historian. He shows how the New Testament notion of "marks" of the church was taken up by Luther and developed by Melanchthon not as descriptive tag but as a criterion for authenticity in Christian community. Lathrop, the liturgical theologian, shows concretely how those marks can stamp the worship life of a congregation as well as the evaluative work of congregations with their pastors, bishops, superintendents, and conference ministers. Only with a sturdy sense of their own identity--as a holy people, grounded in common practices and commitments--can Christian assemblies truly engage and even transform today's cultural context. This volume originated as six lectures jointly presented to the Academy of Bishops of the ELCA in 2001.

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1451419260

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Holy Things

A Liturgical Theology

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

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A Liturgical Theology

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The Four Gospels on Sunday

The New Testament and the Reform of Christian Worship

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

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The Four Gospels on Sunday

The New Testament and the Reform of Christian Worship

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

Premier liturgical theologian Gordon Lathrop argues that far too often liturgy, preaching, and liturgical theology are informed by naive and outdated exegesis. In another fully original and deeply reflective work, Lathrop partners with newer biblical studies to see the Gospels anew. He treats the gospels as early witnesses to the meaning and import of Christian assembly and forces in the shaping and reshaping of liturgy. His work comports and develops the implications our understandings of early Christianity as a meal fellowship.

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1451408927

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New Proclamation

2000 Easter to All Saints

By: Neil Elliott,Gordon Lathrop,Frank Senn,Linda Maloney

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New Proclamation

2000 Easter to All Saints

By: Neil Elliott,Gordon Lathrop,Frank Senn,Linda Maloney

In response to clergy suggestions, New Proclamation now incorporates special features to make sermon writing even easier. Bringing biblical texts into contemporary context and sparking the homiletic imagination, New Proclamation is an indispensable resource for preachers. New Proclamation is designed to assist those who use the Revised Common Lectionary, the Roman Catholic Lectionary, and the Episcopal Lectionary.

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Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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0800642422

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9780800642426

How Does Worship Evangelize?

By: Gordon Lathrop,Mark A. Olson,Frank C. Senn,Jann Fullenweider

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How Does Worship Evangelize?

By: Gordon Lathrop,Mark A. Olson,Frank C. Senn,Jann Fullenweider

Open Questions in Worship explores current issues and emerging practices in the church's worship from a variety of open perspectives. This series invites all who care for the church's life and mission to renew their understanding of the church's worship. Each volume features three essays on the question, along with bibliography for further inquiry.

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0806628006

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The Sunday Assembly

By: Lorraine S. Brugh,Gordon W. Lathrop

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The Sunday Assembly

By: Lorraine S. Brugh,Gordon W. Lathrop

Addresses the general principles that have guided the shaping of Evangelical Lutheran Worship, considering that central liturgy of Christian worship, Holy Communion. This text examines how worship interacts with environment, music, and the preached word, and features useful and practical suggestions for all those who lead the assembly in worship around word and table.

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1451478208

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Proclaiming the Living Word

A Handbook for Preachers

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

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A Handbook for Preachers

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Worship Matters

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1506447899

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The Assembly

A Spirituality

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

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The Assembly

A Spirituality

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

Gathering with others constitutes the essential symbol of Christianity. Assembly is the biblical name for this local community. The book calls the church to think anew about gathering and to refresh its practice, articulating a spirituality that engages the assembly's gathering into the triune God and turns it toward the needs of our neighbors.

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1506478816

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Proclamation Six

Easter

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

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Proclamation Six

Easter

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

Proclamation provides valuable insight and practical help for preachers and worship leaders whose task is to bring text and liturgy into contemporary, meaningful expression. Each volume explores texts shared by Episcopal, Roman Catholic, and Lutheran churches, as well as churches that use the Revised Common Lectionary. Authors for the series are leading biblical and homiletical scholars.

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