This is an essential introductory to liturgy for both ordinands and trainee lay readers - indeed for anyone who finds themselves having to plan or lead public worship. Well-known worship writer and speaker Mark Earey has written this book both for lovers and loathers of liturgical worship - and for those who want to discover it for the first time. This updated and enlarged second edition now includes:* How liturgy works as ritual;* The use of liturgy in different traditions; * The shape of th...

How can we reconcile the ideal church described by theology with the broken church that we see in the world? In this book Joseph Small argues that the church's true identity is known somewhere in the tension between the two.

Small revisits familiar ecclesiological concepts--people of God, the body of Christ, the communion of the Holy Spirit--but rather than focusing on theological abstractions or worldly cynicism, he carefully evaluates the church in its scriptural, historical, theological, ...

Handboek Christelijke Apologetiek onder redactie van prof. dr. H.A. Bakker, dr. M.J. Kater en dr. W. van Vlastuin

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In een maatschappij waarin het christelijk geloof steeds minder publieke betekenis krijgt, worden gelovigen gedwongen verantwoording af te leggen van wat ze geloven. Apologetiek zal daarom voor de kerk en de individuele gelovige zelfs nog belangrijker worden dan dogmatiek. Het handboek apologetiek voorziet in een leemte die er op dat terrein is.

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