Watching and Waiting: A Guide to the Celebration of Advent - Softcover

Stevenson, Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853118346 ISBN 13: 9781853118340

Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich, 2007

Synopsis

Awareness of the liturgical seasons of the year has increased greatly in recent years, as the popularity of the "Common Worship Times and Seasons" volume has illustrated. Churches are constantly looking for ways to enrich their seasonal celebrations, and the first point of better celebration is better understanding. Of all the seasons, Advent is the least understood, the least studied. An entirely Western phenomenon without much of a preaching or liturgical tradition, it is characterised as much by its folk customs - the advent wreath and the Feast of St Nicholas - as by its biblical themes. Here is a book that helps to create a fuller theology of Advent. Kenneth Stevenson characteristically draws on biblical, historical and liturgical evidence to show how the churches have understood and kept Advent down the centuries, and finds that the season has much to say to contemporary concerns in today's church and world, from how we do mission to Richard Dawkins' brand of atheism and a surprising number of issues in between.

About this title

About the Author:

KENNETH STEVENSON is the Bishop of Portsmouth and a leading Anglican liturgical scholar with many publications to his name, including The Lord's Prayer (SCM) and Love's Redeeming Work (OUP), compiled with Rowan Williams and Geoffrey Rowell.

Review:

'For some this will be an essential source book for regular Sunday worship. For many more it will be the first place to look when particular pastoral opportunities or crises present themselves, whatever day of the week they fall.' Tim Stratford, Praxis News of Worship

About this edition

• Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1853118346
• ISBN 13: 9781853118340
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160