Christianity Today<\/em> and is an evangelical Anglican, a member at the Church of the Resurrection in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
\nThis book of his is for the beginner and it is written clearly and well and briefly and covers all the important topics. He gives us introductions to:
\nThe Liturgy itself
\nThe church calendar
\nThe liturgical community
\nThe mystery of liturgy
\nThe relevancy of liturgy
\nThe liturgy\u2019s influence on time
\nThe liturgy\u2019s impact on space
\nThe liturgy\u2019s infusion of grace
\nThe liturgy\u2019s use of the whole body
\nThe liturgy\u2019s capacity to teach faith
\nThe liturgy\u2019s spiritually formative impact
\nThe liturgy\u2019s sanctification of imagination
\nThe liturgy\u2019s ability to create a poetic reality
\nAnd all of this in 142 pages; in a small book that fits in your hand and on your desk and into your heart.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a tension in many of us \u2014 I call it the \u201cWillo-palian\u201d problem. What is it? The yearning for many of us low church types to experience a liturgical life. Many of us are not willing to go the whole way to shift into the Episcopalian Church, or (even further) move into Orthodoxy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1733],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer-and-formation"],"yoast_head":"\n
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