Keeping Time: Time, Liturgy and Christian Discipleship

by Timothy Gorringe

Publisher:

Sacristy Press

, 2022

Overview

​Since the rise of agriculture humans have made sense of time through the rhythms of the agricultural and pastoral year. These rhythms are reflected in the liturgical year and given a new context in terms of the history of Israel and the life, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Christian’s experience the passage of time through the filter of a distinct structure – from Advent to All Saints. The liturgical year can be a school for understanding our own time, human history, and even cosmic time. All these are placed within the framework of the sense of “God” we find in Scripture. As our planet hangs on the brink of climate catastrophe such an understanding becomes more vital than ever. It teaches us to act in urgency and hope. Keeping Time begins by examining the basic units of time – days, hours, weeks, months, years – and looks briefly at how they have been reflected on. This leads on to an account of the liturgical year. Reforming the liturgy is an ongoing process, and Timothy Gorringe makes some suggestions for change – especially with regard to Creation Season, which has not yet been properly integrated into the lectionary. It ends by considering the “sanctoral cycle”, the calendar of those whose example has been found particularly inspiring, asking who is remembered, how, and why.

Key Features

• Examines the basic units of time.
• Gives a distinct structure to a Christian’s sense of time.
• Teaches to act in urgency and hope.

Product Details

• Title: Keeping Time: Time, Liturgy and Christian Discipleship
• Author: Timothy Gorringe
• Publisher: Sacristy Press
• Print Publication Date: 2022
• Pages: 247
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9781789592191, 1789592194, 9781789592207, 1789592208, 1789592216, 9781789592214
• Resource ID: LLS:KPNGTMCDSCPLSHP
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-06-17T02:03:16Z

About Timothy Gorringe

The Reverend Professor Timothy Jervis Gorringe is St Luke’s Professor of Theological Studies in the University of Exeter, England. Born in 1946, Gorringe was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford (BA 1969, MPhil 1975) and Sarum Theological College (1969–72). He was ordained deacon in 1972 and priest in 1973 and served as Assistant Curate at Chapel Allerton (1972–75) and Oxford St Mary the Virgin with St Cross and St Peter (1976–78).