Name: Vision Upon Vision
Price: 21.89 GBP
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Author: George Guiver
ISBN: 9781853119927

This magisterial book examines the changing nature of Christian worship from the earliest years of the New Testament to the liquid modern world. Discounting any notion of an idealized vision of past which each generation seeks to recreate, this groundbreaking book shows that the nature of worship has always involved compromise with public life and has borrowed from the drama of the theatre. He reveals how worship evolved and changed through the great east-west divide, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the 19th century reaction to it. As in his previous, highly praised book, George Guiver's expertise is a forensic detective, tracing in the default practices and customs of ordinary people going about their prayer in church and alone, a vast body of liturgical DNA. He provides us with tools with which to discover the past and examine a range of assumptions and presuppositions about worship today.

Vision Upon Vision and The Fire and the Clay: Priest in Today's Church

The Fire and the Clay: Priest in Today's Church

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This book is a committed plea for daily liturgical worship. The urgent concern of George Guiver, Superior of the Community of the Resurrection in Mirfield, is that we recognise Christ in the world, within creation; and therefore that we understand worship as ‘God’s activity in us’, our own process of evolving discovery. Rejecting quests for somehow authoritative original forms of worship, Guiver invokes both theatre and the historical diversity of worshipping practice to plead that worship is continuing action; that formal worship interacts with contemporary life; and that, above all, the faithful learn to perceive the divine by participation in shared celebration.

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