Keeping Time: The Church's Years

by Gail Ramshaw, Mons Teig

Overview

This title explores why Christians have different ways of looking at time, at how the life of the church is ordered and organized by days, weeks, seasons, and years. It provides detailed information about Sundays and festivals, the lectionary and propers, seasons and commemorations, as well as guidance about leading the church's services of daily prayer. Includes unique indexes to Evangelical Lutheran Worship contents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451478228
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	06/01/2009
Series:	Using Evangelical Lutheran Worship
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	429 KB

About the Author

Gail Ramshaw is a scholar of liturgical language and a retired professor of religion at La Salle University in Philadelphia. She served on the Revised Common Lectionary design committee and on the Church’s Year task force for the Renewing Worship project of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Her many publications include Christian Worship, Treasures Old and New, Between Sundays, and God beyond Gender, all published by Fortress Press.

Mons Teig is professor emeritus of worship at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, having served on the faculty since 1986. He has also served as director for parish worship and preaching in the Division for Life and Mission in the Congregation of The American Lutheran Church, as as pastor of churches in Brooklyn, New York, and Pacific Palisades, California.