New Proclamation Year C, 2000-2001: Advent Through Holy Week - Softcover

Weems, Renita J.; Stendahl, John; Balentine, Samuel E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800642430 ISBN 13: 9780800642433

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2000

Synopsis

Designed to assist those who use the Revised Common Lectionary, the Roman Catholic lectionary, and the Episcopal lectionary, this reader-friendly workbook features introductions to the liturgical seasons with an eye toward preaching; includes brief exegesis of the lessons and homiletical reflections on their themes; has references to culture, media, and contemporary events with practical suggestions for incorporating these into sermons; and provides prayers, quotations, and meditations that address the preacher spiritually.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard S. Ascough is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Queen's Theological College and Queen's University Department of Religious Studies, Kingston, Canada. He is the author of What Are They Saying about the Formation of Pauline Churches? (1998). Renita J. Weems is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, Tenn. She is the author of Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets (Overtures to Biblical Theology; Fortress Press, 1995), I Asked for Intimacy (1993), and Just a Sister Away (1988). John Stendahl is an ELCA pastor in Newton, Mass. Samuel E. Balentine is Professor of Old Testament at Baptist Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va. He has written two volumes in the Fortress Press series Overtures to Biblical Theology: The Torah's Vision of Worship (1999) and Prayer in the Hebrew Bible (1993).

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0800642430
• ISBN 13: 9780800642433
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 271
• Editor: Ascough Richard S., Johnson Marshall D.