Holy Ground: A Liturgical Cosmology

Name: Holy Ground: A Liturgical Cosmology
Brand: Fortress Press
SKU: 9655X
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Author: Gordon W. Lathrop
ISBN: 9780800696559

By: Gordon W. Lathrop

Fortress Press / 2009 / Paperback

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Product Description

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Completes his trilogy! "The worshipper is called to walk on 'holy ground,' through the central symbols of the Christian liturgy: bath, word, prayer, and table. In doing so, these liturgical symbols break open, revalue, and welcome the ordinary and everyday as the holy ground it truly is,"---Living Church. 250 pages, softcover. Fortress.

Product Information

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Title: Holy Ground: A Liturgical Cosmology
By: Gordon W. Lathrop
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 250
Vendor: Fortress Press
Publication Date: 2009

Dimensions: 9 X 6 (inches)
Weight: 13 ounces
ISBN: 0800696557
ISBN-13: 9780800696559
Stock No: WW9655X

Publisher's Description

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Now available in paperback, Holy Ground illumines how the central symbols and interactions of Christian liturgy yield a new understanding and experience of the world and contribute to a refreshed sense of ecological ethics-a Christian sense of the holiness of the earth itself.

Author Bio

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Gordon W. Lathrop has served as a parish pastor, as professor of liturgy at Wartburg Theological Seminary and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, and as visiting professor at Yale Divinity School, the Virginia Theological Seminary, the University of Iceland, the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and the Pontifical Thomas Aquinas University in Rome. His books from Fortress Press include The Pastor: A Spirituality (2006), Holy People: A Liturgical Ecclesiology (1999), and, with Timothy Wengert, Christian Assembly (2004). He has been president of both the North American Academy of Liturgy and the international Societas Liturgica.