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Seminar session
descriptions
The Verbal and Non-Verbal Languages of Liturgy
The words we use in
Christian worship depend radically on that which is not verbal. This
session examines those "non-verbal languages" such as sight, sound,
gesture, symbol and ritual actions, raising pastoral issues for the
churches today. What are the practices that give integrity, vitality and
biblical depth to our words?
Worship Come to Its Senses
Building on the
first session, this presentation will focus on the role of human
affections and the senses in Christian worship. Beginning with the unease
born of St. Augustine's ambivalence about relations between worshiping God
and human sense experience, we will explore the ways in which contemporary
practices of Christian worship may honor the human senses while deepening
participation in the meaning of "spiritual senses."
Singing Our Lives to God: Treasures Old and New
This interactive
presentation explores how singing is a profoundly theological and
spiritual act of faith. Drawing on a select range of hymns and psalms, we
will open up doxology and lament, praise and prophecy in song. How do
these both form and express our humanity before God at full stretch? We
will sing together, giving special attention to several noteworthy recent
compositions.
Love Full Grown: Christ's Life in and Through Us
This session will
focus on the spirituality of being the Body of Christ, with special
reference to how worship and prayer shape and express our common life in
ministry.
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