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.
Über den Autor
William Johnson Everett is Professor Emeritus of Christian Social Ethics at Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School. He holds degrees from Wesleyan University, Yale Divinity School, and Harvard University. He has taught at St. Francis Seminary (Milwaukee), Candler School of Theology, Emory University, and Berea College, as well as in Heidelberg, Bangalore, and Cape Town. His writing encompasses many areas of ethics as well as fiction, poetry, and memoir. He blogs at www.William Everett.com.
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