Gordon Lathrop Bücher

Vor 50 Jahren stießen die Bischöfe der Katholischen Kirche eine grundlegende Reform des Gottesdienstes an. Andere christliche Konfessionen machten sich in dieser Zeit ebenfalls auf den Weg liturgischer Reformen. Ein internationales Autorenteam aus verschiedenenen christlichen Kirchen – Katholiken, Protestanten, Anglikaner, Orthodoxe, Methodisten, Baptisten u. a. – untersucht, wie sich der Gottesdienst in der Vergangenheit entwickelt hat, widmet sich aber auch besonders der Frage, vor welchen Herausforderungen die Liturgie heute steht. Sichtbar wird dabei der immense Reichtum der liturgischen Traditionen sowie ihr Potenzial für die Erfordernisse der Zukunft

Gathering with others constitutes the essential symbol of Christianity. Assembly is the biblical name for this local community. The book calls the church to think anew about gathering and to refresh its practice, articulating a spirituality that engages the assembly's gathering into the triune God and turns it toward the needs of our neighbors.

Renowned liturgical theologian Gordon Lathrop has composed a rich, meditative, and explicitly ecumenical spirituality for working pastors whatever and wherever they are called: preachers, priests, elders, ministers, seminarians. In Part One Lathrop urges pastors to become lifelong students of the Lord's Prayer, the Apostle's Creed, and the Commandments, continually inhabiting the questions, reversals and paradoxes of Christian life. In Part Two he elaborates on the pastor's chief activities presiding at the holy table, preaching, collecting for the poor as the center and focus for pastoral identity and spirituality. Lathrop invites pastors to recenter their busy lives on God and fuel their ministry through prayer.

New in paperback!Cyril of Jerusalem wrote about "holy things." He thereby reflected the communion invitation used in his fourth-century liturgy to call people to "taste and see that the Lord is good" (Mystagogical Catecheses) . The present times call for strong and healthy symbols that hold people into hope. The Christian communities need a reintroduction into the ways in which liturgical symbols respond to human need. Indeed, Lathrop argues, Christian communities continually need to reconsider the meaning of their liturgies and reform those liturgies toward authentic clarity. In its three parts, this book (1) proposes that an ecumenical pattern or ordo of worship can be discerned which is also a pattern of meaning, (2) discusses the ways in which meaning occurs in the meeting for worship itself, and (3) draws practical conclusions about the organization of that meeting and its importance to current human need. Throughout, Lathrop undertakes to do theology, that is, to say what the liturgy actually says about God.