Bøger af Thomas O'Loughlin

This book brings together nineteen Christians from around the world to try to answer the question of how space affects us in worship. Some topics covered include the role of light in a religious building, the varying needs of spaces for different liturgies, and how the liturgical renewal begun in Vatican II should continue today.

What does it mean to be a eucharistic community? In Christ Now Meet Both East and West approaches the Eucharist from the perspective of Christianity being a religion of the table--a place where our thanksgiving happens by gathering as a people with Christ. Author Thomas O'Loughlin emphasizes that any renewal of ourselves as a eucharistic people involves discovering that we are then sent from that table to act, to be eucharistic in our communal activity. He explains that this task is not located in an awesome temple or an otherworldly place but in the heart of the everyday. Through this action of blessing, praising, thanking, and being eucharistic to our heavenly Father, we set about celebrating our faith eucharistically with the risen Jesus present among us.

The Didache is one of the earliest Christian documents, earlier than most of the writings that make up the New Testament. It provides practical instructions on how a Christian community should function, and offers unique insights into the way the earliest Christians lived and worshipped. In this highly readable introduction, Thomas O'Loughlin tells the intriguing story of the Didache, from its discovery in the late nineteenth century to the present. He then provides an illuminating commentary on the entire text, highlighting areas of special interest to Christians today, and ends with a fresh translation of the text itself."A valuable and thorough introduction to an important though little-studied work that provides a unique window on a corner of the early Christian world."--Sean Freyne, emeritus professor of theology, Trinity College Dublin"A truly accessible commentary on this ancient text and on the early Christian communities that lie behind it, and yet one that incorporates up-to-date academic scholarship."--Paul Bradshaw, professor of liturgy, University of Notre Dame"I highly recommend this informed, engaging, and pastorally sensitive exploration of the Didache. Reading the text within its Jewish roots and in harmony with its New Testament parallels, Thomas O'Loughlin shows how the Didache admirably shaped the faith and practice of second-generation Christians in ways that have relevance for us today."--Aaron Milavec, author of The Didache: Faith, Hope, and Life of the Earliest Christian Communities, 50-70 CE

Discipleship - that being a Christian is about learning anddiscovering, acting and responding, choosing and collaborating - is both a primordial Christian theme anda re-discovery of the mid-twentieth century. But how does one discover its meaning? For some it means programmes -like turning out a product, ignoring theindividuality of each's path. Others emphasize the group, forgetting that everycommunity's richness is valuing its members' diversity. Is discipleship the wayof the loner and community-ignoring? But social beings learn discipleship incommunities. Community is not simply the club of like-minded individuals butshould model a new way of being. To uncover what discipleship means, we must read the New Testamentwith the awareness that how we see the world of the early Jesus followers isradically different from the inherited theological underpinning of manychurches. Discipleship and Society in the Early Churches takes ourhistorical awareness seriously, and examines what biblical, historical, andarchaeological research can tell us about discipleship today.  

"Explores various ways of thinking about what Catholics do in the liturgy that should lead us to see intercommunion between Christian denominations as enhancing our participation in the mystery of the Church and the mystery we celebrate"--

This text examines the theological framework within which St Patrick presented his experience and at how the Celtic lands of Ireland and Wales developed a distinctive view of sin, reconciliation and Christian law.

What is the point of the Lectionary? What are the problems and opportunities that it presents to those who use it? What are its strengths and weaknesses as an aid to worship? How can it be used and communicated most effectively today? These are among the key questions Thomas O'Loughlin addresses in this stimulating and much needed liturgical guide to the design, history, theology, and purposes of the Lectionary.

Adomnan, ninth abbot of Iona, wrote his book, "On The Holy Places", in the closing years of the seventh century. This work shows how Adomnan's work can be used to study the nature of scriptural studies in the Latin world of the time, and perceptions of space, relics, pilgrimage, and Islam. It also exposes the theological world of the Carolingians.

This collection of fifteen articles, concentrating on the early Latin middle ages, explores the variety of medieval exegesis and highlights just how patchy has been our understanding of it. One of the significant developments in recent scholarship was the awareness among historians of ideas, historians of theology.