Joyce Ann Zimmerman

Saving Images

Preaching & Worship

““If we wish to climb inside the richness of what Gordon Lathrop does in his latest book, we cannot simply read the text. To savor not only the images of Bible and liturgy that Lathrop writes about, we best approach the text as lectio divina. The very reading of his beautiful, inspirit, informative words is prayer, is a liturgical immersion. Indeed, it takes great skill and love of Bible and liturgy to marry scholarship with prayer. Lathrop is eminently so skilled. This book has so many strengths: at once thoroughly Lutheran, yet ecumenically sensitive; at once competently scholarly, yet pastorally rich; at once converts our imaginations, yet challenges us to live each day what we receive in word and at table. Reading this book is truly an experience of mystagogy of word and table."”