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Audiotapes & videotapes
Fall 2004
L. Bruce Miller
The Challenge of Public Worship after the Jesus Seminar
Following the collapse of the Christ Myth and of extensive research on the historical Jesus, ministers and liturgical leaders face an enormous challenge shaping public worship. Some will react with a mixture of anger, nostalgia and regret and carry on repeating the tradition even though it is increasingly antiquated and irrelevant. Others will seize the opportunity to engage in a new era of creativity. But it is not a question of just updating traditional liturgies or making minor changes. All public worship needs to be rethought and reimagined: prayers, the use of the lectionary, the incorporation of other texts, the structure of the Christian Year, the eucharist, hymns, even the task of preaching.
1 DVD, 90 minutes, $20.00 Add to cart
1 VHS tape, 90 minutes, $20.00 Add to cart
1 CD, 90 minutes, $12.50 Add to cart
1 cassette tape, 90 minutes, $12.50 Add to cart
Robert J. Miller
The Births of Jesus and Other Sons of God
The birth and infancy of Jesus was the subject of serious theologizing, mythmaking, imaginative storytelling, and polemics against competing religions by early Christians. This workshop, based on Bob Miller's book Born Divine, will discuss the historical and theological dimensions of the infancy narratives in Matthew and Luke — with special attention to the virgin birth tradition — and will relate the gospel narratives to stories about the miraculous births of Greek and Roman sons of God and to the fanciful stories in the later infancy gospels. Throughout the workshop he will analyze the perennial appeal of the Christmas story and explore its meanings for contemporary faith.
2 DVDs, 4 hours, $35.00 Add to cart
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4 CDs, 4 hours, $35.00 Add to cart
4 cassette tapes, 4 hours, $35.00 Add to cart
Anne Primavesi
The Concept and Practice of Ecological Humility
We live and act as if we are the centre of the universe, seeing everything that exists as there for us to exploit, control, dominate and even destroy. This workshop will seek to address that problem by looking at how, in the light of today's knowledge about earth's history and our place in it, we perceive our relationships with the whole community of life on earth. In particular, it will examine how the life and teaching of Jesus challenge us to extend our vision of that community to one enfolded in and unfolded through the indivisible love of God. This will provide the theological background for a positive model of interdependent relationships based on ecological humility.
2 DVDs, 4 hours, $35.00 Add to cart
2 VHS tapes, 4 hours, $35.00 Add to cart
4 CDs, 4 hours, $35.00 Add to cart
4 cassette tapes, 4 hours, $35.00 Add to cart
Hal Taussig
Sunday Morning Alternatives to Sleeping In
Although the majority of Christian worship continues to be boring and intellectually lame, many progressive Christians in a wide range of churches throughout the country have recently learned how to make worship expressive, participatory, and thoughful. The addition of world music, dance, earth-based rituals, drama, readings from the sciences, the expression of joys and concerns, rituals and readings from other religions, biblical scholarship, contemplative gestures and disciplines from early Christian and monastic traditions are enlivening many Sunday morning settings. Drawing on thirty years of experimentation in two different pastoral settings, Hal Taussig will paint a picture of expressive and intellectually ambitious worship already in motion in more than a thousand places.
1 DVD, 90 minutes, $20.00 Add to cart
1 VHS tape, 90 minutes, $20.00 Add to cart
1 CD 90 minutes, $12.50 Add to cart
1 cassette tape, 90 minutes, $12.50 Add to cart