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An uplifting devotional for those seeking comfort and hope during the seasons of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. In this beautifully designed devotional, priest Robert Slocum offers heartwarming devotions for the seasons of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. From the miraculous conception of Jesus to the visit of the Magi, Joy to the World! explores the wonders of the God’s coming into the world and how we can embrace the Incarnation in our everyday life—even 2,000 years after Jesus’s birth. Each devotion comes bolstered with uplifting passages from scripture, thought-provoking questions, and soulful prayers to help us as we contemplate God’s steadfast presence and love in our lives.
This devotional book provides a daily reflection, questions for consideration, and a prayer for each of the days in the church season of Lent. It is intended for integration into a daily practice of preparation, penance, forgiveness, and reflection that is appropriate for Lent. Readers are encouraged to relate the themes of Lent to their daily lives. Images and descriptions are drawn from Scripture and daily life to address the reader directly.
This devotional book provides a daily reflection, questions for consideration, and a prayer for each of the twenty-eight days in the church season of Advent. It is intended for integration into a daily practice of preparation and reflection during Advent. Readers are encouraged to relate the seasonal themes of expectancy, renewal, and preparation into their daily lives. Images and descriptions are drawn from Scripture and daily life to address the reader directly.
“For too long the Holy Spirit has tended to be either disregarded or the object of fanatical exclamation in the life of the church, especially in western Christianity,” writes general editor Robert Boak Slocum in his introduction to this stimulating collection of eighteen essays from a broad spectrum of noted authors. “The essays in this collection give attention to many ways of the Spirit’s life and activity—for salvation and healing, for making Christ present in our lives and in the church, for empowering our prayers and liturgies, for our inspiration and gifting, for transformation of the way we live, for the redemption of the world and the ultimate coming of God’s kingdom, fo...
1. A Heart for the Future: Re.ections on the 1 Christian Hope Robert B. Slocum 2. This Body of Hope 32 Robert M. Cooper 3. Parousia and Christian Hope 50 Ralph Del Colle 4. Beneath the Edge of Thought: Inner Eschatology 61 and the Burden of Hope Travis Du Priest 5. Jesus and Eschatology 75 Reginald H. Fuller 6. "I See Your Bridal Chamber Adorned": 85 An Eastern Orthodox Re.ection on the Eschaton in Light of the "Pattern" of Divine Worship Hieromonk Alexander Golitzin 7. The Eschatological Eucharist 100 Charles He.ing 8. The Historic Ought-to-Be and the Spirit of Hope 113 Robert D. Hughes, III 9. Where Lies the Path of Hope in Everyday Life? 125 Thomas Hughson, S.J. 10. What Shall We Do While...
In these twenty-nine essays, Episcopalians consider the tradition and the future of their church—its theology, its polity, its missiology. These “new conversations” come from ministers of every order (bishop, priest, deacon, laity) and from practiced hands at many ministries (education, theology, music, chaplaincy, and spiritual direction). Several essayists write urgently that the Episcopal Church must change if it is to survive. Others contend—with equal fervor—that American Anglicanism can work if Episcopalians will reclaim and reaffirm their liturgical, spiritual, and theological heritage. Between these views are other writers who suggest that points of supposed opposition might indeed coexist in the church of the future—taking vibrant, and perhaps paradoxical, new forms.
Draw nearer Lord, you bring new courage Lighten our path in every day; Through all our doubts and in our worries Help us to follow on your way. Touch all our hearts with your devotion Open our eyes so we may see; And in our darkness bring salvation Until our life is one with thee. --RBS
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A Companion to Comparative Theology offers a unique survey of a rapidly developing field of modern theology in 32 chapters coordinated by five editors. Its first part discusses some of the main historical developments in theology and religious studies before 1985 that are relevant for understanding contemporary approaches in comparative theology. The main part of the companion traces developments in five specific areas of comparative research, starting with classical approaches by Christian comparative theologians, and continuing with responses by scholars from Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist and Chinese religious comparative perspectives. The final part of the companion highlights a number...
The variety and depth of Anglican theology is best engaged through personal encounter with its many sources - the theologians and theological witnesses themselves. Anglican theology is often worked out in personal terms that provide a synthesis between reflection on the truths of faith and the particular contexts of culture and life. This book presents modern Anglican theology through a unique ‘gallery’. This theological gallery includes a portrait or sketch of ten Anglican writers - DuBose, Farrer, Stringfellow, Brooks, Kemper, DeKoven, McCord Adams, Polkinghorne, Gore and Macquarrie. Theological description, interpretation and application are included for each, with the presentations differing as widely as the theologians and theological witnesses themselves. Drawing together understandings and experiences of faith, this will be an invaluable resource for students of Anglican theology and anyone who seeks to understand the distinctive perspectives and contributions of Anglicanism relative to living faith and daily life.