Celebrating the Lectionary® for Junior High provides 15-minute Lectionary-based catechetical sessions for every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation. It includes reproducible send-home pages for each Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation that encourage adolescents to develop a practice of prayer and bring the message of the Lectionary into their daily lives.
Celebrating the Lectionary® for Intermediate Grades provides 15-minute Lectionary-based catechetical sessions for every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation. It includes reproducible send-home pages for each Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation that families can use to live the message of the Lectionary and celebrate the seasons of the liturgical year.
Celebrating the Lectionary® for Preschool and Kindergarten provides 15-minute Lectionary-based catechetical sessions for every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation. It includes reproducible send-home pages for each Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation that families can use to live the message of the Lectionary and celebrate the seasons of the liturgical year.
Celebrating the Lectionary® for Primary Grades provides 15-minute Lectionary-based catechetical sessions for every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation. It includes reproducible send-home pages for each Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation that families can use to live the message of the Lectionary and celebrate the seasons of the liturgical year.
Celebrating the Lectionary® for Junior High provides 15-minute Lectionary-based catechetical sessions for every Sunday and Holyday of Obligation. It includes reproducible send-home pages for each Sunday and Holyday of Obligation that encourage adolescents to develop a practice of prayer and bring the message of the Lectionary into their daily lives.
The Living Word™ helps youth ministers, parish catechists, and high school religion teachers to engage in a process of catechesis that finds its source in the liturgy. The sessions in this resource are designed to enhance the liturgical preparation, liturgical participation, and liturgical living of teens through reflection on the Lectionary readings.
The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Orthodox Christianity investigates the various ways in which Orthodox Christian, i.e., Eastern and Oriental, communities, have received, shaped, and interpreted the Christian Bible. The handbook is divided into five parts: Text, Canon, Scripture within Tradition, Toward an Orthodox Hermeneutics, and Looking to the Future. The first part focuses on how the Orthodox Church has never codified the Septuagint or any other textual witnesses as its authoritative text. Textual fluidity and pluriformity, a characteristic of Orthodoxy, is demonstrated by the various ancient and modern Bible translations into Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopian, Armenian among other languages. The second part discusses how, unlike in the Protestant and Roman-Catholic faiths where the canon of the Bible is "closed" and limited to 39 and 46 books, respectively, the Orthodox canon is "open-ended," consisting of 39 canonical books and 10 or more anaginoskomena or "readable" books as additions to Septuagint. The third part shows how, unlike the classical Protestant view of sola scriptura and the Roman Catholic way of placing Scripture and Tradition on par as sources or means of divine revelation, the Orthodox view accords a central role to Scripture within Tradition, with the latter conceived not as a deposit of faith but rather as the Church's life through history. The final two parts survey "traditional" Orthodox hermeneutics consisting mainly of patristic commentaries and liturgical interpretations found in hymnography and iconography, and the ways by which Orthodox biblical scholars balance these traditional hermeneutics with modern historical-critical approaches to the Bible.
In the critically acclaimed best-seller,Women's Bible Commentary, an outstanding group of women scholars introduced and summarized each book of the Bible and commented on those sections of each book that have particular relevence to women, focusing on female charecters, symbols, life situations such as marriage and family, the legal status of women, and religious principles that affect relationships of women and men. Now, this expanded edition provides similar insights on the Apocrypha, presenting a significant view of the lives and religious experiences of women as well as attitudes toward women in the Second Temple period. This expanded edition sets a new standard for women's and biblical studies.
