Description: Recent years have brought liturgical reforms seeking to increase openness and inclusivity and to lessen ecological domination, patriarchy, and racial hierarchy. As a result, traditional words such as "Lord", "kingdom", and "kingship" have been replaced, yet their usual replacements -- "sovereign", "realm", and "reign" -- retain the language of feudal monarchy. In "The Politics of Worship", William Johnson Everett closely examines the political theology of worship and proposes a ritual practice that strives to be consistent with a Christian ethic of inclusiveness and mutuality. It is this practice that will help move Christian worship beyond the old language and symbols -- however disguised -- and into a new, truly inclusive theological paradigm.

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