Tag: Book Review
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Brief Book Review: This is the Door
MICHAEL PLEKON — We all would benefit from Darcey Steinke’s wonderful mosaic of the human experience of the body, pain and faith.
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Brief Book Review: Monotheism in Christian Liturgy
This small monograph is part of the Cambridge Elements series on Religion and Monotheism. As such, it will be of particular interest to those exploring the theological significance of the Christian confession “that there is one God worthy of worship” (1).
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Brief Book Review: Theology, Music, & Modernity
“The book represents a deep engagement by theologians and musicologists with each other and, together, with ‘matters of religion and theology.'”
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Brief Book Review: Verbum ac Spiritus
McCarthy presents a grounded theology of liturgical presiding, as well as principles for planning and/or re-organizing liturgical space in contemporary churches.
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Brief Book Review: Death by Baptism
Honeycutt confronts head-on truncated understandings of baptism as “fire insurance” against eternity in hell or as supernatural guarantee against misfortune.
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Brief Book Review: Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music
“There is sacred power in pop music, and it is worthy of scholarly attention.”
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Book Review: Prayer Takes Us Home
Lohfink offers thoughtful analysis of what the prayer of petition does to us, how it widens our perception of the needs of others as well as ourselves, how it makes us aware of how helpless we often are.
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Brief Book Review: The Canterbury Book of New Parish Prayers
“Here is a highly-visible liturgist and author offering the Church a collection of excellent new prayers.”
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Brief Book Review: The Pattern of Our Days
Julia Upton reviews The Pattern of Our Days.