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Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality Through the Christian Year QUOTES

Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality Through the Christian Year QUOTES

1 " To summarize, Easter Sunday is the most important Sunday. It is the Sunday of all Sundays. It is the day of the new beginning of the entire cosmos, the day of resurrection.

In our worship we must be careful not to reduce our message to the Easter fact only. The Easter fact must include the message this fact proclaims: God makes all things new. It must also include the message that we have been raised with Christ. Calling God's people to die to sin and rise to the new life is central not only to Easter day but to the Easter season. "

― Robert E. Webber , Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality Through the Christian Year

2 " If we can speak so emphatically of the intrinsic value of the liturgical year, it is because we celebrate it together with Christ himself. The special nature of the church year is entirely due to the fact that the Lord himself presides over it and that he celebrates his mysteries with the church for the glory of the Father. Adrian Nocent "

― Robert E. Webber , Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality Through the Christian Year

3 " What I longed for was something that went deeper than pious ideas on morality or intellectually stimulating thoughts about the meaning of human existence, as good as these were. I wanted something that actualized the pattern of being in Christ. I wanted something that worked in my life, something that brought a realistic spirituality into being. I wanted something that ordered my life into the pattern of Christ’s life, death, resurrection, and coming again. "

― Robert E. Webber , Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality Through the Christian Year

4 " Worship and preaching that follow a particular book of the Bible is called Lectio Continua. "

― Robert E. Webber , Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality Through the Christian Year