In Treasures Old and New Gail Ramshaw brings new life to forty primary images from the readings of the three-year lectionary, which is now in use in a variety of forms across the churches. After a thorough introduction to the use and understanding of images, see grounds each of the forty images with excerpts from the church liturgy and song and from the writings of the church's mothers and fathers. Within each chapter see explores the primary image in light of its biblical context, extrabiblical connections, place in the church's tradition relationships to the liturgical year, related images, poetic nuances, and contemporary usefulness. Treasures Old and New is the fruit of many years of reflection on language and worship a sweeping summation of the author's work to date as a teacher, scholar and advocate for the church's worship. Family grounded in biblical scholarship, filled with practical insights for the pulpit and classroom as lively and vivid in style as the images she treats, this volume is a richly veined mine for those who study, preach, and teach, as well as those who seek a literate devotional companion to the readings proclaimed in worship.

Treasures Old and New: Images in the Lectionary

Religion & Spirituality

Ramshaw, Gail

Religious Studies

Fortress Press

Based on the NRSV and incorporating inclusive language for God, this volume mirrors Lectionary for Worship in format. Principles for revision are conservative and poetic in nature, carefully respecting the meaning and imagery of the original biblical text while attending to the sound of the readings in public proclamation.

Readings for the Assembly: Cycle B (Mark

Lathrop, Gordon

Augsburg Fortress Pub

Book by Ramshaw, Gail, Lathrop, Gordon

Readings for the Assembly (Series, Cycle C)

Links church liturgy to everyday activities, using illustrations with brief text and scriptural passages

Every Day and Sunday, Too

AUGSBURG FORTRESS

Illustrations and rhyming text featuring numbers present the essentials of Christian faith

1-2-3 Church

Useful as the basis for group-use Bible study as well as personal devotion, this table of daily Bible readings is designed to support and enrich the ecumenical three-year Revised Common Lectionary. This is the only RCL-based daily lectionary table that grows out of and amplifies the central Sunday readings. A brief summary phrase for each reading enables the reader to see the connections between all of the week's readings and the Sunday readings.

Between Sundays: Daily Bible Readings Based on the Revised Common Lectionary

Christian Books & Bibles

Worship & Devotion

Fortress Pr

A concise, clear, straightforward introduction to the way that Christian communities have organized their reading of scripture in worship. The Worship Matters Studies Series examines key worship issues through studies by pastors, musicians, and laypeople from throughout the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Features include the following: 1) Informal and insightful writing for all readers; 2) Study questions at the end of every chapter; 3) Examination of vital issues in weekly worship; 4) Increased ability of leaders and congregants to understand and experience worship more richly.

A Three-Year Banquet: The Lectionary for the Assembly (Worship Matters)

Recent decades have witnessed the revival of the ancient liturgies of the Three Days - Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil. In this book Ramshaw gives a little history and a lot of suggestions about how these services can enrich the worship life of your entire assembly.

The Three-Day Feast: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter (Worship Matters)

"Liturgical language" denotes those words used by Christians in their communal praise and prayer. Liturgical language is often metaphoric, as metaphors help us explain the unexplainable they help the human mind contemplate the divine. Problems with liturgical language occur when these metaphors exclude some Christians when their aim should instead be to bring all Christians into communion with God. Recognizing that both metaphoric and inclusive language are necessary in Christian worship, Ramshaw clarifies how these need not be contradictory criteria for forming liturgical language.
Through a review of the history of language, Ramshaw illustrates the difficulties of forming texts from words that have undergone numerous translations and whose primary meanings have also changed throughout the centuries. An examination of trends in generic American English, the vernacular on which liturgical texts are to be built, reveals two tasks for liturgists: the arduous work of retranslating liturgical texts and the creative work of crafting intercessions, hymns, and homilies that are inclusive in language. Her discussion of symbolic imagery and theological language illustrates how essential it is that words be evaluated and chosen with understanding and care.
Ramshaw writes for those who find beauty and truth in metaphor and for those who strive to invite everyone to the Eucharistic banquet. She encourages all who formulate liturgical language to contemplate with seriousness and Vision the ultimate objective of this language so that it can speak with meaning and beauty to all.

Liturgical Language: Keeping It Metaphoric, Making It Inclusive (American Essays in Liturgy)

Liturgical Press

How might Ambrose of Milan, Hildegard of Bingen, and Catherine of Siena inspire us to improve Sunday worship? What about Lawrence, John of Damascus, Thomas Cranmer, Johannes Kepler, Margaret Fell, and Dorothy Day? Even Amy Carmichael can point our assemblies toward more profound worship. In Saints on Sunday, Lutheran laywoman Gail Ramshaw, listening to twenty-four sainted voices, proposes how our past might enliven our future. Characterized by rigorous scholarship and no-nonsense honesty, her essays suggest ways to enrich the gathering, word, meal, and sending of our assemblies on Sunday.

Saints on Sunday: Voices from Our Past Enlivening Our Worship

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