Author: Ormonde Plater
Publisher: Church Publishing
Keywords: liturgy, deacons
Number of Pages: 129
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0898696348
ISBN-13: 9780898696349

In the Anglican churches of North America, and sometimes elsewhere, there are two complaints about deacons in the liturgy: Bishops and priests complain that deacons don’t know how to do liturgy. Deacons complain that bishops and priests won’t let them do liturgy. The solution lies in liturgical formation, both theological and practical. This book is designed to help provide that formation for bishops, priests, deacons, and indeed for all the people of God. The introduction provides a brief history of the use of deacons in Anglican liturgies, from 1549 to the present, including char

Author: Michael Kwatera
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Keywords: second, deacons, ministry, liturgical
Number of Pages: 94
Published: 2005-04-30
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0814630502
ISBN-13: 9780814630501

Author: Lance Hill
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: rights, movement, civil, resistance, defense, armed, deacons
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2006-02-27
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0807857025
ISBN-13: 9780807857021

In 1964 a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an armed self-defense organization--the Deacons for Defense and Justice--to protect movement workers from vigilante and police violence. With their largest and most famous chapter at the center of a bloody campaign in the Ku Klux Klan stronghold of Bogalusa, Louisiana, the Deacons became a popular symbol of the growing frustration with Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent strategy and a rallying point for a militant working-class movement

Author: Benjamin Merkle
Publisher: Kregel Academic & Professional
Keywords: questions, series, answers, deacons, elders, amp
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-11-29
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0825433649
ISBN-13: 9780825433641

Arranged in a Q & A format, this volume tackles the major questions that pastors, church leaders, and students ask about congregational church government.

Author: Janny Venema
Publisher: Picton Press
Keywords: york, new, monographs, international, studies, albany, beverwyck, account, dutch, reformed, church, deacons
Number of Pages: 293
Published: 1998-07
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0897253426
ISBN-13: 9780897253420

Through a variety of approaches_personal accounts, facts and figures, and historical research_the volumes in this series recount the history of the Reformed Church in America and its churches, ministers, and missionaries.