This revised and updated edition of one of the most influential works of theology published in recent years takes a fresh and joyous approach to some central questions. It explores the connections between prayer and praise and our knowledge of God, between worship and doctrine, between responding to God with love and living with wisdom and intellectual integrity.
Endorsements:
“A book of luminous qaualitv and lasting usefulness.”
Rowan Williams, Archbishop ot Canterbury
‘Helps us to see how worship is an alternative to the stoicism that grips the lives of Christians and non-Christians alike. It should be read by everyone intent on helping the church to recover its liturgical integrity
Stanlev Hauerwas. Duke Divinity School
‘”What I saw was like a universe in smiles.” Hardy and Ford’s description of Dante’s Paradiso also captures the essence of Living in Praise. Speaking to an age whose faith is too often stole or absent, they reintroduce the Praise of God that is daily bread not only for body and spirit, but also for the mind.’
Peter Ochs, University of Virginia
‘I have been fed and led for a very long time by this book. Hardy and Ford are deeply rooted theologians who care for the church, and who understand that the practice of faith in freedom and imagination is at the heart of all that is true. In this offer of a taxonomy of praise” they move easily back and forth between biblical tradition and contemporary context. They articulate the generative power of praise and they know about contemporary threats to that potential. This presentation of the “jazz factor” in faith is a most welcome one.’
Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary
