Event Title
The Church on Earth: Embodying Liturgical Renewal in an Ecological Age
Location
Brown & Gold Room 264, Harre Union, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
Start Date
8-4-2013 1:00 PM
End Date
8-4-2013 4:00 PM
Description
In an age of growing ecological awareness and peril, the church has been rediscovering the incarnational and embodied dimensions of many of its core worship practices:
- time-keeping practices structured by the cycles of the earth, sun and moon
- connections between holy communion, the farming of fields and vineyards, and all meals
- the embodied nature of liturgical celebration and of abundant life on earth
This workshop offers participants a practical and theological overview of the emerging ecological dimensions of congregational worship renewal.
The Church on Earth: Embodying Liturgical Renewal in an Ecological Age
Brown & Gold Room 264, Harre Union, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
In an age of growing ecological awareness and peril, the church has been rediscovering the incarnational and embodied dimensions of many of its core worship practices:
- time-keeping practices structured by the cycles of the earth, sun and moon
- connections between holy communion, the farming of fields and vineyards, and all meals
- the embodied nature of liturgical celebration and of abundant life on earth
This workshop offers participants a practical and theological overview of the emerging ecological dimensions of congregational worship renewal.
About the Presenter
Dr. Charles P. Arand is professor of systematic theology. Concordia College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (B.A. 1980); Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri (M.Div. 1984, S.T.M. 1987, Th.D. 1989); pastor, St. John, Minden, and St. Luke, Covington, Illinois (1988-89); assistant professor, Concordia Seminary (1989-95); associate professor (1995-2001); professor since 2001; chairman, department of systematic theology, since 1995; assistant dean of faculty (1996-98); acting dean of faculty (1997); faculty marshal since 1997; associate vice president for academic affairs (1998-2004); Waldemar A. and June Schuette Endowed Chair in Systematic Theology since 2003; curriculum developer, Specific Ministry Pastor program, since 2008.
Rev. Dr. Benjamin M. Stewart is the Gordon A. Braatz Assistant Professor of Worship and Dean of Augustana Chapel at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. He is author of A Watered Garden: Christian Worship and Earth's Ecology (2011).