Summary of the Lent – Easter 2025 Issue of Doxology
Founded in 1984, Doxology: a journal of worship and the sacramental life is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal of liturgical scholarship bridging academic and church communities. It is published by the Order of Saint Luke, a dispersed ecumenical religious order founded by Methodists. The Order currently includes United Methodists, Lutherans, Episcopalians, Baptists, members of Holiness movement churches, and many others. Doxology publishes work by established and emerging liturgical scholars to address historical, theological, and cultural questions about Christian worship and the sacramental life.
ARTICLES
“Repent and Be Baptized! Healing and Deliverance and Their Role in the Catechumenal Process, Ancient and Modern” by Michael H. Marchal
How then did our Christian ancestors of the first two centuries, a time when public preaching was often outlawed and some Scripture texts were still being written, manage to continue the Great Commission? And do so with such success that by the fourth century, Christianity was the religion favored by the emperors? The answer, of course, was the convincing witness of their lives. It was the fruits of their conversion revealed in their lifestyle that attracted others to wonder what power was at work within them. In a rapidly secularizing world, the Christian churches of North America today all face the same challenge, not just of evangelization but of walking with seekers both on the journey to Baptism and on the way to discipleship, to baptismal living. Only a process that interweaves mind and heart and lifestyle can produce authentic Christians. This article examines various modern rites of Christian initiation with those principles in mind.
BOOK REVIEWS
The Bible and Baptism
The People’s Theology: Classic Hymns and Christian Formation
Going to Church in Medieval England
A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church: Year B
POEM
“The Disgruntled Church Usher” by Daniel Klawitter, OSL
FILM REVIEW
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
HYMN
“Children of Calamity” by Juanita Moot