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A glimpse into the ideals and insights that have shaped one of the Episcopal Church's most widely known parishes, St. Gregory of Nyssa in San Francisco.
Rick Fabian, well known as one of the founding priests of St. Gregory of Nyssa in San Francisco, writes his “treatise in eleven parts” on the significant signs of communal life: the welcoming table, authority (human and biblical), baptism, mystery, marriage, children, the spirit, reconciliation, the worship year, beauty, and hospitality. This “revisionist approach to sacramental theology” offers a glimpse into the depth of thought behind the praxis that has shaped one of the Episcopal Church’s most widely known parishes.
Rick Fabian writes with a gracious and winning voice, inviting you to a deeper conversation about the signs of life in our time.
--Gordon W. Lathrop, author of Saving Images: The Presence of the Bible in Christian Liturgy
Introduction
1. Jesus’s Sign: The Welcoming Table
2. The People’s Sign: Giving Authority to Christ
3. The Church’s Sign: Baptizing the World 4. The Sign of the Divines: Dancing the Mystery
5. The Spouse’s Sign: Love beyond Death 6. The Sign of Desire: Daughters and Sons
7. The Seer’s Sign: Rivers in the Desert 8. The Peacemaker’s Sign: Reconciliation 9. The Hearer’s Sign: The Worship Year
10. The Creator’s Sign: Beauty
11. A Fitting End
Conclusion: Grateful Memory
Appendix: Hymns of Christ Coming in Our Worship Now for the Eucharistic Procession