Liturgy and Worship

Preaching remains a central feature of almost all Christian worship. There are thousands of men and women in the UK who preach on a regular basis. This book covers such subjects as Preaching in a Communications Culture, Preaching and the Bible,...

A step-by-step guide to learning about preaching and more importantly how to craft and deliver a sermon. It offers a student-friendly, jargon-free introduction which requires no prior knowledge of the subject. Suitable for all church traditions and...

A Preacher's Tale aims to provide not just a theoretical introduction, but a resource that uses sermons in the narrative style to reflect on how to prepare and construct them and how to deliver them effectively in the context of worship.

In The Eucharistic Faith, the first of a significant new systematic theology of the Eucharist, Ralph N. McMichael weaves liturgy and theology together to understand the ways in which theology and Christian faith are, at heart, about the...

Kate Bruce argues that imagination can help to engage the hearer in a sermon which seeks to evoke rather than to inform. Imagination frames how we see the world and ourselves in it. As such it has a vital role in how preachers see the preaching task...

Using a new interdisciplinary approach to practical theology, A Rite on the Edge, reflects theologically on the findings of research conducted by Sarah Lawrence into baptism in the Church of England and in English culture more widely, using insights...

This book, written by two experienced teachers working with Readers and supporting Reader ministry, offers a fresh look at Reader ministry and thus a resource for Readers to consider their own specific ministry as well as for those exploring Reader...

Presents an overview of the Church of England. Beginning with the great Victorian modernisers who stamped their taste on music as much as church buildings, this title takes us on a musical tour that takes in: the impact of the Wesleys, the...

Liturgy with a Difference gathers a broad range of international theologians and scholars to interrogate current practices of liturgy and worship in order to unmask ways in which dehumanizing majoritarianisms and presumed norms of gender, culture,...