Category: 3_SCHOLARSHIP
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Book Review: Vocātiō: Imaging a Visible Church
Doyle imagines clergy allowed out of the parish structure as we have known it for over a thousand years, out of a two-tiered, that is clergy-lay institutional church structure.
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Brief Book Review: Historical Foundations of Worship
A common basis for the study of liturgical history that can be appreciated by readers of any Christian tradition.
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Brief Book Review: Guide for Forming a Parish Bereavement Ministry
A concrete example of how to do liturgical/sacramental theology with the Church’s rites as a starting point, and how to incarnate that theology in the spiritual life of the parish and its members.
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In the image of God he created them …
What “being a woman” is has always been and still is decided by men in the Catholic Church – to the disadvantage of women.
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Yale ISM Liturgy Conference 2023: Registration Now Open!
Please consider joining us for the 6th Yale ISM Liturgy Conference, held in-person at Yale University, in New Haven, CT, from June 12-15. The overarching topic is “Liturgy, Materiality and Economics.” More information on the topic and the featured speakers is available here: https://ism.yale.edu/event/2023-liturgy-conference-earth-heaven-liturgy-materiality-economics Registration for the conference is open and can be accessed here:…
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Amen Corner: Orthodoxy’s Kryptonite
With the approach of Orthodox Pascha, Pray Tell’s Nicholas Denysenko offers pointed words on the relationship between Orthodoxy and the ongoing war in Ukraine in this quarter’s Amen Corner.
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Listening to the Triduum Liturgies again
Every year when I hear the same central readings of the Triduum I think I’ve heard it all – all the readings and all the angles of approaching those readings. But I haven’t; the words of the proclamations are the same, but as is the case with everyone, I’m different this year, others are…
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The Beginning of Lent: An Anglican Muddle
I know this post is looking a bit backwards in time because it is focused on Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, but it seems by the First Sunday in Lent it’s time to move on to all the other questions circling around the season which seem more pertinent and urgent, and so it…
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In This Issue: Worship 97 (April 2023)
Featured articles discuss the Lutheran catechumenate, the adoration of the Cross, using gendered pronouns for Christ, and eucharistic corruption.