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Evangelical is not enough : worship of God in liturgy and sacrament by Thomas Howard is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
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In this deeply moving narrative, Thomas Howard describes his pilgrimage from Evangelicalism (which he loves and reveres as the religion of his youth) to liturgical Christianity. He soon afterwards became a Roman Catholic. He describes Evangelicalism with great sympathy and then examines more formal, liturgical worship with the freshness of someone discovering for the first time what his soul had always hungered for. This is a book of apologetics without polemics. Non-Catholics will gain an appreciation of the formal and liturgical side of Catholicism. Catholics will see with fresh eyes the beauty of their tradition. Worship, prayer, the Blessed Virgin, the Mass, and the liturgical year are taken one after the other, and what may have seemed routine and repetitive suddenly comes to life under the enchanting wand of Howard's beautiful prose. Howard unfolds for us just what occurs in the vision and imagination of a Christian who, nurtured in the earnestness of Protestant Evangelicalism, finds himself yearning for "whatever-it-is" that has been there in the Church for 2000 years. It traces Howard's soul-searching and shows why he believes the practices of the liturgical Church are an i
Who reads Evangelical is not enough : worship of God in liturgy and sacrament?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Thomas Howard
- Publisher
- Ignatius Press
- Published
- 1984
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780898702217
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Christian, Fiction, Religion
- Rating
- 4.15 / 5 (290 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14