Saving Words: 20 Redemptive Words Worth Rescuing
Ebook
Overview
What words from our Christian vocabulary would you miss if you could no longer use them? If you pronounced them and no one understood? If you spoke and people gave them a meaning at odds with your conviction? What words do you fear are falling into misuse? If you could save some word or phrase from disuse or misuse what would it be? Saving Words is a collection of personal, provocative essays by lay people, clergy, poets, theologians, musicians, and scholars on words they want to preserve and proclaim, urgent and important reflections on the language we need for the facing of these days. Open this volume and find saving words that matter.
“The editors have gathered together a compelling collection of
essays on the theme of . . . ‘saving words’—words that
have salvific import yet need to be saved in their proper meaning
and use in the context of contemporary Christian life. These
delightful essays are powerfully personal in their narrative form.
Confessing of the saving nature of each word from within the
immediacy of a unique perspective, they nevertheless work to
revivify each word’s potency for shared use in community.”
—Michelle Rebidoux, Department of Religious Studies, Memorial
University of Newfoundland
“From across the English-speaking Anglican communion, lay
and ordained writers reflect on words and concepts basic to the
Christian life. Personal yet public, intellectual yet accessible,
these essays teach us by example how to examine key words of our
faith. In their attempt to rescue such words from caricature and
near extinction, these writers gently nudge us to do
likewise.”
—Kathryn Greene-McCreight, Affiliate Priest, Christ Church New
Haven
“What’s not to like about Saving Words? Richter and Pagano
have drawn together Anglicanism’s best to draw out our best—our
best words. . . . Each essayist, weaving personal
anecdote with reflective wisdom, aims to ‘save some word or phrase
from disuse or misuse.’ Not for the word’s own sake, but for God’s
and for ours. Here are twenty words worth saving, eloquently
expounded as theology experienced, finally valuable because God is
using them to save us.”
—Brent Laytham, Dean, St. Mary’s Ecumenical Institute
- Title: Saving Words: 20 Redemptive Words Worth Rescuing
- Authors: Joseph S. Pagano, Michael B. Curry, Amy E. Richter
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781725262218, 9781725262225, 9781725262201, 1725262215, 1725262223, 1725262207
- Resource ID: LLS:9781725262218
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-11-05T20:38:25Z
Joseph S. Pagano and Amy E. Richter are Episcopal priests and serve in the Parish of Pasadena and Cormack, Newfoundland, in the Anglican Church of Canada. They are also faculty members of Queen’s College, St. John’s, Newfoundland Labrador.