In Defense Of Christian Ritual

Author : David R Andersen
Publisher : New Reformation Publications
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781948969659

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In Defense of Christian Ritual by David R Andersen Pdf

Is Christian worship best conceived as a creative, Spirit-fueled experience that any formalized structure necessarily inhibits, or are there any biblical prescriptions around for worship that Christians were meant to follow? In light of recent research from various disciplines-including history, psychology, and New Testament studies - In Defense of Christian Ritual: The Case for a Biblical Pattern of Worship argues the latter. Specifically, this book will demonstrate three things. First, in contrast to the anti-ritualism so prevalent in modern churches, ritual's indispensable role in providing biblically-centered context and content is detailed.Second, contrary to modern opinion, a definite pattern of worship is shown to be present both in our earliest New Testament documents and the early church.Finally, new research will reveal that the assumptions about creativity lying at the heart of modern contemporary worship are fundamentally flawed. Readers will discover that the apostolic teaching embodied in the church's early ritual, as expressed in its liturgy, was never intended to be outdated or rendered irrelevant in light of current fads. It was never meant to be a relic of the ancient past, but a structured way of bringing the "memoirs of the apostles" -that Jesus died for sinners- to God's people in the here and now.

Author : Richard E. DeMaris,Jason T. Lamoreaux,Steven C. Muir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317227199

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Early Christian Ritual Life by Richard E. DeMaris,Jason T. Lamoreaux,Steven C. Muir Pdf

Scholars across many fields have come to realize that ritual is an integral element of human life and a vital aspect of all human societies. Yet, this realization has been slow to develop among scholars of early Christianity. Early Christian Ritual Life attempts to counteract the undervaluing of ritual by placing it at the forefront of early Christian life. Rather than treating ritual in isolation or in a fragmentary way, this book examines early Christian ritual life as a whole. The authors explore an array of Christian ritual activity, employing theory critically and explicitly to make sense of various ritual behaviors and their interconnections. Written by leading experts in their fields, this collection is divided into three parts: • Interacting with the Divine • Group Interactions • Contesting and Creating Ritual Protocols. This book is ideal for religious studies students seeking an introduction to the dynamic research areas of ritual studies and early Christian practice.

Author : Risto Uro,Juliette Day,Rikard Roitto,Richard E. DeMaris
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198747871

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual by Risto Uro,Juliette Day,Rikard Roitto,Richard E. DeMaris Pdf

Scholars of religion have long assumed that ritual and belief constitute the fundamental building blocks of religious traditions and that these two components of religion are interrelated and interdependent in significant ways. Generations of New Testament and Early Christian scholars have produced detailed analyses of the belief systems of nascent Christian communities, including their ideological and political dimensions, but have by and large ignored ritual as an important element of early Christian religion and as a factor contributing to the rise and the organization of the movement. In recent years, however, scholars of early Christianity have begun to use ritual as an analytical tool for describing and explaining Christian origins and the early history of the movement. Such a development has created a momentum toward producing a more comprehensive volume on the ritual world of Early Christianity employing advances made in the field of ritual studies. The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual gives a manifold account of the ritual world of early Christianity from the beginning of the movement up to the end of the fifth century. The volume introduces relevant theories and approaches; central topics of ritual life in the cultural world of early Christianity; and important Christian ritual themes and practices in emerging Christian groups and factions.

Author : Paul F. Bradshaw
Publisher : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 028105746X

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Foundations in Ritual Studies by Paul F. Bradshaw Pdf

An innovative Reader in Ritual Studies which focuses on the Christian Liturgy as an example of ritual studies, this book covers the context of ritual, classical views of ritual, defining ritual, the field of ritual, the Method, including Participant observations, and Case studies.

Author : Burrows, William R.,Shaw, R. Daniel
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608337279

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Traditional Ritual as Christian Worship by Burrows, William R.,Shaw, R. Daniel Pdf

A necessary task of missionaries in recent decades has been to help local Christians "inculturate" or "contextualize" their faith, although the criteria for doing so often came from outside the context in which new believers developed their understanding of Christianity. Highlighting the voices of non-Western scholars, this work recognizes the importance of ritual and ceremony in the life of communities that seek to worship God in ways that reflect culturally appropriate responses to Scripture. The contributors -- some of missiology's leading lights -- discuss rituals, beliefs, and practices of diverse peoples, supporting the conclusion that orthodox Christianity is hybrid Christianity.

Author : Keith F. Pecklers
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814629857

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Worship by Keith F. Pecklers Pdf

"'Worship : a primer in Christian ritual' explains just what Christians do when they gather on Sunday mornings and how they got there. It provides historical and theological foundations of the evolution of Christian liturgy from the early Church to the reforms of Vatican II." -- BACK COVER.

Author : Dru Johnson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575064321

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Knowledge by Ritual by Dru Johnson Pdf

What do rituals have to do with knowledge? Knowledge by Ritual examines the epistemological role of rites in Christian Scripture. By putting biblical rituals in conversation with philosophical and scientific views of knowledge, Johnson argues that knowing is a skilled adeptness in both the biblical literature and scientific enterprise. If rituals are a way of thinking in community akin to scientific communities, then the biblical emphasis on rites that lead to knowledge cannot be ignored. Practicing a rite to know occurs frequently in the Hebrew Bible. YHWH answers Abram’s skepticism—“How shall I know that I will possess the land?”—with a ritual intended to make him know (Gen 15:7–21). The recurring rites of Sabbath (Exod 31:13) and dwelling in a Sukkah (Lev 23:43) direct Israel toward discernment of an event’s enduring significance. Likewise, building stone memorials aims at the knowledge of generations to come (Josh 4:6). Though the New Testament appropriates the Torah rites through strategic reemployment, the primary questions of sacramental theology have often presumed that rites are symbolically encoded. Hence, understanding sacraments has sometimes been reduced to decoding the symbols of the rite. Knowledge by Ritual argues that the rites of Israel, as portrayed in the biblical texts, disposed Israelites to recognize something they could not have seen apart from their participation. By examining the epistemological function of rituals, Johnson’s monograph gives readers a new set of questions to explore both the sacraments of Israel and contemporary sacramental theology.

Author : Philip Freeman
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066138240

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Rites and Ritual: A Plea for Apostolic Doctrine and Worship by Philip Freeman Pdf

Rites and Ritual: A Plea for Apostolic Doctrine and Worship is a work by Philip Freeman about the establishment of Christian rituals and rites in the English church. It gives an insight into such elements of the church organization as decoration of altar, the organization of holiday ceremonies, the explanation of the doctrine, and the proof of why the established organization of rites and rituals is proper.

Author : Joseph Martos
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498221795

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Deconstructing Sacramental Theology and Reconstructing Catholic Ritual by Joseph Martos Pdf

Catholic sacramental doctrine has lost much of its credibility. Baptized people leave the church, adolescents stop attending shortly after they are confirmed, supposedly indissoluble marriages regularly dissolve, few go to confession, and many do not believe in transubstantiation. Drawing upon his decades-long study of the sacraments, Martos reveals how teachings that seemed rooted in the scriptures and Catholic life have become unmoored from the contexts in which they arose, and why seemingly eternal truths are actually historically relative. After carefully constructing Catholic teaching from the church's own documents, he deconstructs it by demonstrating how biblical passages were misconstrued by patristic authors and how patristic writings were misunderstood by medieval scholastics. The long process of misinterpretation culminated in the dogmatic pronouncements of the Council of Trent, which continues to dominate Catholic thinking about the church's religious ceremonies. If the sacraments are released from their dogmatic baggage, Martos believes that the spiritual realities they symbolize can be celebrated in any human culture without being tied to their traditional rites.

Author : Leda Ciraolo,Jonathan Seidel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9789004497368

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Magic and Divination in the Ancient World by Leda Ciraolo,Jonathan Seidel Pdf

This collection of essays focuses on divination across the Ancient World from early Mesopotamia to late antiquity. The authors deal with the forms, theory and poetics of this important and still poorly understood ancient phenomenon.

Author : Chander Behl
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781460258026

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Anatomy of Spirituality: Portrait of the Soul by Chander Behl Pdf

The domain of spirituality, separated from its theological overburden, believes in the existence of a spiritual self, presumed to be distinctly separate from the psychological self. The spiritual eternal self, also known as the soul or spirit (sometimes supported by an overarching Spirit), is asserted to be operating behind the ephemeral self. This book takes a contrarian stance; it argues that the premise of the soul concept is obtained through the magic of language, maintained through the marvel of the brain’s biochemistry, and sustained through the mirage of the psychological juggernauts of the brain. The magic, the marvel and the mirage, together, bring about subtle shifts as the linguistic brain suppresses many psychological details, habitually applies mental templates such as inversions and dichotomies, and enhances its language by coining religious and spiritual metaphors. The consequence of these changes is that the usual flickering self begins to be impressed by itself, believing it is buttressed by something transcendental and eternal within: the soul or the spirit. The self, although indoctrinated during its formative years, also begins to assimilate and accept the opinion that the overwhelming weight of religious doctrines and dogmas, the overburden, signifies as the legitimate proof for the eternal soul.

Author : John P. Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136889929

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Understanding Religious Ritual by John P. Hoffmann Pdf

Although numerous studies of religious rituals have been conducted by religious studies scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists, it is rare to find a work that brings scholars from different disciplines together to discuss the similarities and differences in their research. This book represents contributions by leading scholars from several disciplines that show the diversity of approaches to religious rituals, while also providing cross-disciplinary perspectives on this topic. The goals of the chapters are to consider where the field currently stands in understanding religious rituals and what novel ideas can improve our knowledge about these practices; and furnish innovative applications of theory by discussing particular examples which are drawn from the authors’ fieldwork. The chapters cover Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, and Islamic rituals, thus providing a view of how ritual practices vary across the globe, but also how they share some important characteristics.

Author : Timothy Larsen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191632051

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The Slain God by Timothy Larsen Pdf

Throughout its entire history, the discipline of anthropology has been perceived as undermining, or even discrediting, Christian faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who assumed that ethnographic findings and theories had exposed religious beliefs to be untenable. E. B. Tylor, the founder of the discipline in Britain, lost his faith through studying anthropology. James Frazer saw the material that he presented in his highly influential work, The Golden Bough, as demonstrating that Christian thought was based on the erroneous thought patterns of 'savages.' On the other hand, some of the most eminent anthropologists have been Christians, including E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, and Edith Turner. Moreover, they openly presented articulate reasons for how their religious convictions cohered with their professional work. Despite being a major site of friction between faith and modern thought, the relationship between anthropology and Christianity has never before been the subject of a book-length study. In this groundbreaking work, Timothy Larsen examines the point where doubt and faith collide with anthropological theory and evidence.

Author : Leonel Lake Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X000737392

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The Meaning of Ritual by Leonel Lake Mitchell Pdf

Author : Pete Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Liturgics
ISBN : 1841012270

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The Rite Stuff by Pete Ward Pdf