Thomas G. Long wrote Accompany Them With Singing – The Christian Funeral before he co-wrote The Good Funeral with Thomas Lynch. The book focuses more clearly on the funeral as Christian worship, and the way in which Christian convictions shape the form and practice of funerals as a distinctive expression of Christian worship. Coming before …
Jesus bids his disciples to follow him. This invokes life as a journey, imparts an understanding of human nature, and provides a vision of human destiny that culminates in ultimate community. Jesus bids his disciples to follow him while living in cultures that instead are inwardly framed on the what is termed freedom and increasingly …
Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon wrote Resident Aliens in 1989. Their analysis of both Christian and secular culture continues to be insightful and useful. If the situations appear to have changed in the thirty something years that have passed, it is only that they have increased and strengthened, not that courses have altered. Here they …
A ritual, by its nature is a set of common actions – performed in a common circumstance. Intrinsic in the shared actions are a recognition that they are carried out due to a shared experience. They serve as a recognition and response of communal experience. Thomas Long observes that attempting to fully personalise the elements …
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