Caring liturgies : the pastoral power of Christian ritual /
Caregiving practices in churches often center around listening and giving counsel, making referrals, and creating support groups for specific needs. In Caring Liturgies, Susan Marie Smith proposes that Christian ritual is both a method and a means for helping people through liminal times of transiti...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
Fortress Press,
©2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Worship as ritual : understanding and claiming ethical Christian ritual
- Creative rites : assessing pastoral ritual need
- Ritual midwives : planning and leading ritual
- Metaphors and symbols : linking a person's story to the Christian story
- Ritual honesty : holding truthful tension
- Holy sacrifice : mediating the labor pains of change
- The paschal mystery : the crux of caring ritual.