Israel’s Praise: Doxology against Idolatry and Ideology (Biblia.com)

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“Praise is the duty and delight, the ultimate vocation of the human community; indeed of all creation. Yet, all life is aimed toward God and finally exists for the sake of God. Praise articulates and embodies our capacity to yield, submit, and abandon ourselves in trust and gratitude to the One whose we are. Praise is not only a human requirement and a human need, it is also a human delight. We...

Second, I have wanted to be attentive to the central task of the pastor within the Christian congregation, and within a culture that continues to draw heavily from and rely seriously upon theological claims and assurances. After two generations of the splintering “professionalism” of ordained ministry,4 we are at a moment when ordained ministry is being refocused on the pastoral, liturgical task of nurturing a communal, intentional, and often alternative imagination. This means that the pastor, in

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