Calendar

by Stookey, Laurence Hull

• ISBN13: 9780687011360
• ISBN10: 0687011361
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Abingdon Pr

Summary

A probing but clearly written book, Calendar will find an appreciative audience beyond academia and clergy to the laity of the church: choirs and their directors, worship planners, adult study groups, and others who want to understand better the church's times of preparation and celebration.Calendar centers largely on theological meaning and parish practice in relation to liturgical time. Deliberately, almost no attention is given to detailed historical development, much of which is exceedingly complex in its origins and technical in its detail. An appendix entitled "Forgetting What You Were Always Taught (Or, This Book in a Nutshell)" aptly describes the radical reordering that Stookey believes occurs when our understanding of time and the story of Jesus takes its bearings from the Incarnation. So, just as the Christian week begins with Sunday, the day of Resurrection, Stookey follows the Christian year beginning with the season of Easter, and only then Lent; Christmas, then Advent. Illuminating discussions of Ordinary and Extraordinary Time, and the Sanctoral Cycle follow.

Author Biography

Laurence Hull Stookey is Hugh Latimer Elderdice Professor of Preaching and Worship, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 11
Prologue	p. 15
Living at the Intersection of Time and Eternity	p. 17
The Year of Our Risen Lord	p. 39
Easter: The Great Fifty Days	p. 53
Lent: Forty Days of Devotion and Discipline	p. 79
Christmas: The Great Exchange	p. 105
Advent: The End and the Beginning	p. 121
Ordinary and Extraordinary Time	p. 133
The Sanctoral Cycle: Resurrection Power in Human Lives	p. 141
Epilogue	p. 153
Putting Liturgical Colors in Their Place	p. 155
Forgetting What You Were Always Taught (or, This Book in a Nutshell)	p. 158
Calendars	p. 162
Notes	p. 164
For Further Reading	p. 184
Index	p. 187
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