Liturgy in the Wilderness
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Liturgy in the Wilderness

How the Lord's Prayer Shapes the Imagination of the Church in a Secular Age

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Liturgy in the Wilderness

How the Lord's Prayer Shapes the Imagination of the Church in a Secular Age

About this book

What you pray . . . shapes what you believe . . . shapes how you live.

The Lord’s Prayer is a beautiful, subversive passage of words given to the church by Jesus. It forms our imaginations and—given time—transforms us. And today, we are in desperate need of renewed imaginations. Christians are living in a wilderness of secularism. The historic Christian faith is seen as absurd at best and dangerously oppressive at worst. Followers of Jesus must begin to imagine life as a faithful minority who are ever seeking to subvert what is evil with good, what is hateful with love, what is corrosive with nurture.

In Liturgy in the Wilderness, Anglican priest D. J. Marotta shows how the Lord’s Prayer provides a framework in our secular age for understanding, believing, and living in light of Jesus Christ. When we pray the Lord’s Prayer, we’re planting seeds that can split concrete. We’re dripping water that can wear away granite. We’re shifting spiritual tectonic plates that lie deep beneath culture, society, and the depths of our own hearts. When we pray the Lord’s Prayer, our imaginations are stirred, moved, and transformed. We’re taken apart and put back together. We’re stripped of our idols, addictions, and false hopes. We’re offered new words of trust and mission. And we begin to see the world differently—the way Jesus saw it.

With this book, Marotta awakens our hearts to the beauty, sustaining power, and bounty of the Lord’s Prayer and shows us how to live faithfully in the wilderness.

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Yes, you can access Liturgy in the Wilderness by D. J. Marotta,D J Marotta in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Teología y religión & Religión. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780802428561
eBook ISBN
9780802475374

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. The Need for Subversive Imagination
  9. 2. Reimagining God as Shared
  10. 3. Reimagining God as Affectionate
  11. 4. Reimagining God as Beautiful
  12. 5. Reimagining God as Good
  13. 6. Reimagining the Wilderness as a Place of Bounty
  14. 7. Reimagining Life as Free
  15. 8. Reimagining Ourselves as Safe
  16. 9. Reimagining the Church as Powerless
  17. Epilogue: Walking Backward into the Future
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. Notes