Praising God

by Duck, Ruth C.; Wilson-Kastner, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780664257774
• ISBN10: 0664257771
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

Here at last is a book that attends both to the call for more inclusive language in worship and to the traditional claims of Trinitarian theology. The authors insist that the Trinity must remain at the heart of Christian worship. But this need not confine us to a single formula or a narrow range of images; indeed, new forms of language are essential if we are properly to praise the unnamed, all-named, triune God. This book is brimming with liturgical resources, including prayers, hymn texts, and sample sermons.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiv
Introduction	1	(8)
Where Do We Start?	9	(16)
Patricia Wilson- Kastner
Praising a Mystery	25	(21)
Ruth C. Duck
The Trinity in Sunday Worship	46	(18)
Ruth C. Duck
The Trinity and Preaching	64	(17)
Patricia Wilso-Kastner
Trinitarian Language in Hymns	81	(17)
Ruth C. Duck
Sophia and the Trinity	98	(22)
Ruth C. Duck
Living the Trinitarian Life: Ethics and Worship	120	(17)
Patricia Wilson-Kastner
Epilogue and Introduction to the Liturgical Resources	137	(2)
General Liturgical Resources	139	(33)
Call to Worship	139	(1)
Invocations	139	(1)
Sung Doxologies	140	(2)
Collects	142	(1)
Prayers of Confession	143	(1)
Prayers of Thanksgiving	144	(1)
Miscellaneous Prayers	145	(2)
Benedictions	147	(1)
An Order for Christian Baptism	148	(6)
Eucharistic Prayers	154	(11)
Service of Healing	165	(7)
A Sunday Eucharistic Liturgy	172	(9)
Appendix: A Sampling of Trinitarian Hymns	181	(8)
Notes	189