This book documents the Episcopal Church's developing focus on baptism within the context of the liturgical movement, the emerging understanding of the eucharist, prayer book revision, and the confirmation dilemma. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, the author presents a credible case in support of her belief that a baptismal ecclesiology is emerging from these events that have enabled people to accept a radically different initiatory pattern in the church. This book exhibits clarity on the issues discussed with the support of solid scholarship and lucid writing.

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A significant collection of articles on expanding our language about God, compiled by Ruth A. Meyers for the Standing Liturgical Commission. Topics discussed include: theological, biblical, and historical perspectives on Supplemental Liturgical Materials; biblical origins of inclusive language; historical and theological perspectives on expanding liturgical language; and gender and trinitarian language.

Missiology
-A robust and practical theology that integrates worship and mission into a seamless whole.-

Anglican & Episcopal History
-A very useful and insightful text. . . . A remarkable synthesis of most of the best insights liturgical scholars and missiologists have gained regarding the relationship between mission and liturgy over the last decades.-

George R. Hunsberger
-- Western Theological Seminary
-Ruth Meyers brings a deep grasp of what's at stake in the rediscovery of mission as the essence of the...

A collection of essays issued under the direction of the Standing Liturgical Commission (SLC) on baptism and ministry. Topics addressed are welcoming new ministers, reaffirmation of ordination vows, confirmation/reception, and baptismal ministry. (116 pp)

- Revised edition and next entry in the Weil Series in Liturgics
- Well-known book; well-respected authors
- Timely, as The Episcopal Church considers the shape that prayer book revision may take

2015 marked the thirtieth anniversary of Lee Mitchell's great standard work on the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. As his student, protEgEe, and colleague, Ruth Meyers takes this classic work and updates it for the Church in its current era and for the future.

For clergy, seminarians, liturgists, historians