Circling the Table: The Spirit and Practice of Roundtable Worship - Softcover

Everett, William Johnson

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798385222384

Publisher: Resource Publications, 2024

Synopsis

What if Christian worship took place as a conversation at a round table spread with elements of earth’s gifts of nurture and beauty? This book describes such a practice—Roundtable Worship—and lays out a fresh and challenging theological foundation for it. Central to this foundation is the struggle to reconstruct the images of governance and justice that have always lain at the heart of a worship shaped by biblical traditions. Drawing on the practice of circle conversations at the heart of movements for reconciliation and restorative justice, Everett presents a theological vision rooted in biblical covenant-making, a social image of the Trinity, and an understanding of the church as “the covenanted public of Christ’s Spirit.” Roundtable worship provides a hospitable setting where people can begin to give deeper voice to their life, listen appreciatively to each other’s longing for reconciliation, and anticipate in imagination and action a renewed public life beyond the angry and violent polarizations of our age.

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About the Author

William Johnson Everett has taught Christian social ethics in theological schools in the US, Germany, India, and South Africa. Many of his writings, including God's Federal Republic (1987) and The Politics of Worship (1997), have focused on the relation of ethics to worship. His round communion tables can be found at Boston University and Yale Divinity School. He lives in the Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina and journals regularly at WilliamEverett.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798385222384
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 138