The Church's 'Public Service: Complicated, Complex or Chaotic? - Softcover

Cones, Bryan ; Catt, Peter ; Taylor, Paul

9781923603813: The Church's 'Public Service: Complicated, Complex or Chaotic?

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ISBN 10: 1923603817 ISBN 13: 9781923603813

Verlag: ATF Theology, 2026

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The meaning of the Greek word behind ‘liturgy’ has been variously translated as ‘the work of the people’ and ‘public service’, with one emphasizing the ‘doers’ of the work and the other ‘the work’ done. In both cases, however, the communal is paramount: ‘The people’ act as one body for the sake of a larger ‘public’ beyond any church. The task is not a simple one, and the work of responding to the needs of a complicated, even chaotic, world is complex to say the least. Contributors to this volume engage the challenge from diverse perspectives. Peter Catt, dean of Brisbane’s St. John’s Anglican Cathedral, addresses the unintended consequences of offering a ‘radical welcome’ to people long excluded from much church life. Without attention to the sometimes problematic sources of Christian liturgy—including its ‘texts of terror’—Christian worship may further alienate those it is meant to invite. Uniting Church in Australia minister Matthew Julius delves further into the many ‘publics’ Christian worship addresses, along with their presumed forms of ‘participation’. Julius’ proposals for ‘liturgicking’ expand both those involved and their manner of participation. Paul Taylor engages intrachurch complexity in his exploration of concelebration in a ‘synodal’ church. How might a large number of ordained priests vested in a single liturgy thwart a growing appreciation of the Roman Catholic Church as community of many equal voices. Michelle Eastwood raises a related issue in the Lutheran Church of Australia regarding the recent expansion of liturgical leadership of women. Jenny Close draws together the challenge faced by all who prepare and celebrate liturgy: the juxtaposition of divine.

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�ber die Autorinnen und Autoren

Bryan Cones is a presbyter in the Episcopal Church, Diocese of Chicago, USA, an honorary post-doctoral researcher at Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity in Melbourne, Australia, and editor of the Australian Journal of Liturgy. His publications include Liturgy with a Difference: Beyond Inclusion in the Christian Assembly (co-edited with Stephen Burns; London: SCM Press, 2019); This Assembly of Believers: The Gifts of Difference in the Church at Prayer (London: SCM Press, 2020), and Queering Christian Worship: Reconstructing Liturgical Theology (edited; New York: Seabury Press, 2023).

Peter Catt holds a BD and a PhD in evolutionary microbiology and is Dean of St John’s Anglican Cathedral, Brisbane. His interests include Christian formation, the science and religion dialogue, and narrative theology. Peter understands justice to be a core spiritual value. He serves on Anglican and Ecumenical Social Justice Committees at a diocesan and national level.

Paul Taylor is Assistant Director of the ACU Centre for Liturgy and Organist and Director of Music at Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo, Victoria.

Matthew Julius is a graduate of Pilgrim Theological College in Melbourne and is the Assembly Advocate for Transforming Worship in the Uniting Church in Australia. He works as Church Engagement Worker for Uniting, the community services organisation of the Uniting Church in Victoria and Tasmania.

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