Gail Ramshaw

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  Saints On Sunday

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  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.

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  Treasures Old And New

  $56.66

  Foreword
  Abbreviations

  INTRODUCTION
  The Three-Year Lectionary
  Images
  The Images In The Lectionary
  Using This Volume

  FORTY IMAGES
  Battle
  Body
  City
  Clothing
  Covenant
  Creation
  Cross
  Day Of The Lord
  Emanation Of The Divine
  Family
  Fire
  Fish
  Food
  Garden
  Harvest
  Heaven-Earth-Hell
  Israel
  Journey
  Judge
  Kingdom
  Light
  Marriage
  Mother
  Mountain
  Name Of God
  Outsider
  The Poor
  Prophet Resurrection Of The Body
  Sacrifice
  Servant
  Shepherd
  Spirit
  Temple
  Treasure
  Tree
  Water
  Week
  Wind
  Wisdom

  AFTERWORD

  APPENDIXES AND INDEXES
  Revised Common Lectionary Images
  Roman Lectionary (Revised) Index
  Biographical Appendix And Index
  Acknowledgments And Endnotes
  Bibliography
  Index Of Images And Liturgical Terms

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  In Treasures Old and New Gail Ramshaw illuminates forty primary images from the three-year lectionary. With each of the images she considers related terms, exploring a total of nearly two hundred words and phrases in light of biblical history, typological relationships, poetic nuances, metaphoric meanings, and liturgical year connections.

  Sample constellations of images include:

  Creation: beginning, creation, firstborn, new creation, virgin birth
  Fire: ashes, burning bush, fire, tongues
  Light: blindness, darkness, day, light, morning star, night, sight, star, sun
  Treasure: gifts, gold-frankincense-myrrh, pearl, rich fool, treasure, widow’s coin
  Water: exodus, flood, Jordan, river, sea, water, well

  Treasures Old and New offers a guide to rich symbolic speech for those who preach and teach, yet remains accessible and inviting to the reader seeking a resource for devotion and meditation on the scriptures. Extensively indexed to support the Revised Common Lectionary as well as the Roman Catholic lectionary.

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  What Is Christianity

  $75.00

  With over twenty years in the classroom, Gail Ramshaw frames this new introduction to Christianity survey text around the basic questions students ask. Taking a broad social-scientific approach and integrating historical context, she anchors each chapter in phenomenological theory and teases out the answers to each chapters question by surveying the history, doctrine, practices, and convictions of Christianity.

  Written for students with little to no background in Christianity, the book contains student-friendly learning helps including chapter summaries, photos and charts, “I am a Christian” statements that illustrate the diversity of practice and belief, study questions, suggestions for further exploration in both books and film, a glossary, and an index.

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  Liturgical Language : Keeping It Metaphoric Making It Inclusive

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  “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 languages 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.

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  God Beyond Gender

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  144 Pages

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  God Beyond Gender is a feminist critique of the traditional language used for God and in the church. Can masculine pronouns for God be retained on the basis of bibical usage? Can Trinitarian language be gender inclusive? What should be the Christain understanding of the devine name of God (YHWH) in the Old Testament? What are the possibilities and what are the hazards of using human images (“judge,” “shepherd,” “father,” “mother,” “Sophia”) for God? Is all human language and possibly all human thought necessarily metaphorical?

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  Psalter For The Christian People

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  The increasing desire among Christians to pray in inclusive language has resulted in the publication of this inclusive language psalter. The editors have selected the 1979 Book of Common Prayer as the basis for their psalter. Techniques for changing all the non-inclusive language to inclusive language were carefully wrought and judiciously applied, in keeping with common sense, biblical scholarship, and the ancient Hebrew liturgical principle that holds in high respect the majesty of God’s name.

  Every effort has been made to render the lines in a flowing, euphonious manner, well phrased for chanting. Since different communions practice variant methods of chanting, this volume includes an essay which offers instruction in four methods of pointing these psalms.

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  Intercessions For The Christian People Cycle A B C

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  Fifty liturgical scholars-Roman Catholic, Episcopal, and Lutheran-have authored these intercessory prayers for each Sunday of the three-year cycle to expand the resources available to local pastors. The authors have been guided by the traditional pattern of prayers of the faithful. All language is inclusive.

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