Tim Sedgwick has been among us as perhaps the most seriously Anglican and yet seriously ecumenical voice for a philosophical ethics grounded in the Christian sacraments. This latest book goes even deeper and farther than he has done before. He now harvests decades of teaching and decades of reading in giving us a liturgically based, philosophically acute moral theology. It is very welcome and very much needed.
— Gordon H. Lathrop, Charles A. Schieren Professor of Liturgy Emeritus, United Lutheran Seminary of Pennsylvania
No one has written better over many years than Timothy Sedgwick about the practice of faith in moral action as centered on the community of worship. In this book he provides a magnificent apologia for the Christian faith drawing on contemporary science and philosophy about how we come to know, and how that way of knowing finds its fulfillment in the Christian faith. A deeply moving book which is graced with his characteristic lucid prose, and thought provoking ideas, and which challenge the reader into reimagining the faith as a matter of practical piety. A book to be treasured, read and re-read. Profound, elegant and succinct.
— Peter H. Sedgwick, Honorary Research Associate, Cardiff University, Wales
Timothy Sedgwick draws us into the dynamism of liturgical practice as the polyphonic sounding of the memories of God that form and sustain the Christian way of being in the world. At once an account of liturgical worship and Christian life itself, this is the sweet fruit of a lifetime’s reflection – an Anglican theologian’s interdisciplinary gift to liturgical, moral, and ascetical theologians of the wider church.
— James W. Farwell, Professor of Theology and Liturgy, Virginia Theological Seminary
This is a big book! It is not big because it is long. It is big because it addresses a matter of supreme importance—Christian formation. Just how, in a secular society, are individual believers and the congregations to which they belong to live lives that are in the form of Christ? Sedgwick answers. They are to remember; and they are to remember by participating In a range of common practices such as worship, self-examination, welcoming strangers, care for the poor among many others. It is through these practices that individuals and the communities to which they belong become the Body of Christ.
— Philip Turner, Dean Emeritus, Berkley Divinity School at Yale