The Bible in worship
Subtitle: proclamation, encounter and response
By: Victoria Raymer
Publisher: SCM Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780334056478
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Liturgical use; Worship; Lectionaries; Reading in public worship; Bible
Description: Biblical proclamation is central to Christian worship. The Bible witnesses to the foundational experiences of the Church. Its proclamation invites worshippers into encounter with Christ, the living Word. The Bible in Worship seeks to make visible how the Bible is encountered in the worship of mainstream Western churches. Focusing in turn on the Roman Catholic, Reformed and Anglican traditions, Victoria Raymer offers a detailed and lively consideration of the contemporary practices of proclamation in each, considers their respective patterns of reading the Bible as part of public worship, and reflects on the place the Bible takes in daily prayer. Raymer also draws our attention towards the role the psalms play in contemporary formal liturgy, and offers a chapter on how the Bible is weaved into less formal forms of worship, including contemporary sung worship. Offering a truly holistic study of the scripture in worship, the book will resource readers to reflect on how proclamation invites response in understanding and resolve, and to consider how it might do so more effectively.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Proclamation of the Bible in the worship of the Roman Catholic Church; title: Proclamation of the Bible in the worship of Reformed churches; title: Proclamation of the Bible in the worship of Anglican churches; title: Proclamation : enhanced and interactive; title: Scripture in contemporary daily prayer; title: Selection and juxtaposition of readings; title: The synoptic lectionaries : characteristic; title: The synoptic lectionaries : criticism; title: Psalms in worship