The People's Work, paperback edition: A Social History of the Liturgy - Softcover

Frank Senn ventures behind the liturgical screen, behind the texts, and behind the rubrics to reconstruct the everyday religious expression in Christian history. Senns magisterial Christian Liturgy: Catholic and Evangelical (1997) has been widely hailed for its appreciation of the dynamic role of culture in shaping liturgical expression. In The Peoples Work, Senn delves further into the cultural home of liturgy looking at processions and pilgrimage, communion practices and spiritual reading, fasting and feastingall the myriad liturgical practices that have been the concrete life and primary work of the body of Christ.

Frank C. Senn is pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Evanston, Illinois. He is active in ecumenical affairs and liturgical circles, and has taught at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, the University of Chicago Divinity School, the University of Notre Dame, and Concordia University in River Forest, Illinois. Senn is the author of nine books, including most recently The People's Work: A Social History of the Liturgy (Fortress Press, 2006, 978-0-8006-3827-6).