Christian Symbol and Ritual

An Introduction

Bibliographic Data

ID19922263
AuthorsBernard Cooke (College of the Holy Cross), Bernard J Cooke, Gary Macy (University of San Diego)
Year2005
Pages178
Publication date2005-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueChristian symbol and ritual (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/0195154118.001.0001
OpenAlexW2490306685
ISBN9780195154115
Open LibraryOL3300412M
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited3

This book introduces readers, with little or no background in Christianity, to the theology and history of Christian rituals. It opens with a brief explanation of the role of symbols in human life based on recent anthropological studies. A short introduction to key Christian concepts follows, explaining the role that rituals perform in the Christian worldview. The authors are careful to translate concepts, such as salvation, grace, and sacrament, for those unaccustomed to Christianity. Five areas in which ritual activity central to Christianity are then investigated: friendship, initiation, prayer, ministry or service, and suffering and death. The book is written from an explicitly nondenominational point of view, and offers an explanation of those areas where Christian groups understand or practice rituals differently. The final chapter investigates symbols and rituals that are important to Christianity, but not usually included in lists of Christian “sacraments”

Christian ministry · Christianity · Early Christianity · Friendship · History of Christianity · Key (lock) · Linguistics · Prayer · Social science · Sociology · Symbol (formal) · Theology · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Christian art and symbolism · Doctrinal Theology · Liturgics · Ritual · Theology, doctrinal

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