Vision upon Vision: Processes of Change and Renewal in Christian Worship - Couverture souple

Guiver, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 185311992X ISBN 13 : 9781853119927

Editeur : Canterbury Press Norwich, 2009

Synopsis

This magisterial book examines the changing nature of Christian worship from the earliest years of the New Testament to the liquid modern world. Discounting any notion of an idealized vision of past which each generation seeks to recreate, this groundbreaking book shows that the nature of worship has always involved compromise with public life and has borrowed from the drama of the theatre. He reveals how worship evolved and changed through the great east-west divide, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the 19th century reaction to it. As in his previous, highly praised book, George Guiver's expertise is a forensic detective, tracing in the default practices and customs of ordinary people going about their prayer in church and alone, a vast body of liturgical DNA. He provides us with tools with which to discover the past and examine a range of assumptions and presuppositions about worship today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

GEORGE GUIVER is Superior of the Community of the Resurrection in Mirfield, Yorkshire and teaches liturgy at the College of the Resurrection, an Anglican theological college. He is author of the widely acclaimed Company of Voices - a history of daily prayer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Canterbury Press Norwich
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 185311992X
• ISBN 13: 9781853119927
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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