Lively Oracles of God

Gordon Jeanes has recently retired as a parish priest in London. Previously he taught liturgy in the Universities of Durham and Cardiff. He is the author of The Day Has Come! Easter and Baptism in Zeno of Verona (1995) and Signs of God’s Promise: Thomas Cranmer’s Sacramental Theology and the Book of Common Prayer (2008). Bridget Nichols lectures in liturgy and Anglicanism at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute in Dublin. She is the author of Liturgical Hermeneutics (1996) and editor of The Collect in the Churches of the Reformation (2010). She is a past president of Societas Liturgica.

Contents

Foreword ix
   Paul F. Bradshaw
Preface xi
List of Contributors xv

Chapter 1
   “Today This Scripture Has Been Fulfilled in Your Hearing” 1
    Cally Hammond
Chapter 2
   “How Are They to Hear Without Someone to Proclaim Him?” 15
    John Baldovin, SJ
Chapter 3
   The Bible in the Context of the Eucharist 33
     Thomas O’Loughlin
Chapter 4
   Living Lent and Engaging Easter: Scripture’s Potential and Liturgy’s Limits 55
     Anne McGowan
Chapter 5
   Light in the Darkness: Advent to Candlemas 75
     David Kennedy 
Chapter 6
   Sunday, the Week, and Ordinary Time: A Return ad Fontes 96
     Normand Bonneau, OMI
Chapter 7
   The Role of the Bible in Anglican Marriage Rites 115
     Catherine Reid
Chapter 8
   Scripture Shaping Funerals or Cultural Funerals Shaping Scripture? 132
     Lizette Larson-Miller
Chapter 9
   Bible, Liturgy, and Doxology 150
     Bridget Nichols
Chapter 10
   Limping with the Living God: Reimagining Centre and Margins in the Liturgy 170
     Armand Léon van Ommen
Chapter 11
   A World Made New in Christ 186
     Christopher Irvine
Chapter 12
   Children Are Church 206
     Ann Loades
Chapter 13
   Liturgy, Gender, and Identity 227
     Stephen Burns 
Conclusion
   Reading the Bible through the Liturgy 251
     Gordon Jeanes

Index of Biblical References 263