Circling the Table
eBook - ePub

Circling the Table

The Spirit and Practice of Roundtable Worship

  1. 138 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Circling the Table

The Spirit and Practice of Roundtable Worship

About this book

What if Christian worship took place as a conversation at a round table spread with elements of earth's gifts of nurture and beauty? This book describes such a practice--Roundtable Worship--and lays out a fresh and challenging theological foundation for it. Central to this foundation is the struggle to reconstruct the images of governance and justice that have always lain at the heart of a worship shaped by biblical traditions. Drawing on the practice of circle conversations at the heart of movements for reconciliation and restorative justice, Everett presents a theological vision rooted in biblical covenant-making, a social image of the Trinity, and an understanding of the church as "the covenanted public of Christ's Spirit." Roundtable worship provides a hospitable setting where people can begin to give deeper voice to their life, listen appreciatively to each other's longing for reconciliation, and anticipate in imagination and action a renewed public life beyond the angry and violent polarizations of our age.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. In Gratitude
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1: Foundation Stones of Christian Worship
  5. Chapter 2: Symbolizing Governance
  6. Chapter 3: Covenant and Republic
  7. Chapter 4: Governance in the Image of the Triune God
  8. Chapter 5: Worship in the Covenanted Public of Christ’s Spirit
  9. Chapter 6: Our Practice of Roundtable Worship
  10. Chapter 7: The Place of Roundtable Worship in the Wider Church
  11. Appendix: A Roundtable Liturgy
  12. Bibliography