{"product_id":"common-worship-tradition-formation-mission-9780938162223","title":"Common Worship: Tradition, Formation, Mission","description":"\u003cp\u003eCommon worship? Yes, because a broken church cannot repair a broken world. Common worship is evidence of our engagement with Christ's prayer \"that we may be one.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDare we think about \"common worship\" in a social context that more readily identifies polarization rather than commonality--traditional \u003cem\u003eor\u003c\/em\u003e contemporary, liturgical \u003cem\u003eor\u003c\/em\u003e non-liturgical, high church \u003cem\u003eor\u003c\/em\u003e low church, evangelical \u003cem\u003eor\u003c\/em\u003e sacramental, protestant \u003cem\u003eor\u003c\/em\u003e catholic, unity \u003cem\u003eor\u003c\/em\u003e diversity?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will help the church learn, through reflection on its liturgical practices, how to be a both\/and community in a time when current discussion focuses on either\/or: traditional or contemporary, liturgical or non-liturgical, evangelical or sacramental; and in which the diversity of the church receives more attention than its unity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow and to what end might we speak of \"common worship,\" of shared liturgical patterns and practices that express something of the unity of the church?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommon worship: idealistic? Certainly, but only if we believe that we are responsible for creating that unity rather than for receiving it as gift already given. But, to get to this requires that we learn to think and act differently as the church. We need to learn how to think and speak \u003cem\u003econjunctively\u003c\/em\u003e rather than oppositionally, to speak and think of traditional \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e contemporary, evangelical \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e sacramental, protestant \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e catholic. In doing so, we will learn to live out of what Paul Ricouer calls a \"second naivet \" or what James Fowler calls a conjunctive or paradoxical faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e E. Byron Anderson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e United Methodist General Board of Higher Educ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780938162223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnderson, E. Byron:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - E. Byron Anderson is the Ernest and Bernice Styberg Professor of Worship and Director of the Nellie B. Ebersole Program in Music Ministry at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"United Methodist General Board of Higher Educ","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41111311548531,"sku":"9.78094E+12","price":42.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_4ae5b48d-70ca-4106-84b7-5989e2946e89.jpg?v=1700573351","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/common-worship-tradition-formation-mission-9780938162223","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}