'They asked for bread and you gave them a stone, for fish a snake': The future of worship in Oceania

Gerard Moore

'They asked for bread and you gave them a stone, for fish a snake': The future of worship in Oceania

Gerard Moore

Theology

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What underpinning principles of worship did the missionaries introduce to the peoples of Oceania? Where these bread or stone, fish or snake? There is a sense that they were bread and fish, given the power of worship in these lands and islands, and the ongoing centrality of liturgy to the lives of many communities. Yet they also were stone in some communities and snake in others. General patterns are hard to pin down, as the variety of cultures, in multiple ways, absorbed the Christian principles and integrated them into their cultural framing. Along with this is the constant of change. The communities and peoples of the South Pacific have and are undergoing change, and with they are reinterpreting their worship in new ways and under new paradigms. What then is the future of worship in Oceania?

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Bridging the divide between faith, theology and life
Subtitle of host publication	The church in Oceania
Editors	Anthony Maher
Place of Publication	Adelaide SA
Publisher	ATF Press
Chapter	10
Pages	151-163
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781925232677
ISBN (Print)	9781925232653, 9781925232660
Publication status	Published - 2015

Publication series

Name	Forum of Theology in the world
Number	2
Volume	2

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'They asked for bread and you gave them a stone, for fish a snake': The future of worship in Oceania. / Moore, Gerard.
Bridging the divide between faith, theology and life: The church in Oceania. ed. / Anthony Maher. Adelaide SA: ATF Press, 2015. p. 151-163 (Forum of Theology in the world; Vol. 2, No. 2).

Research output: Book chapter/Published conference paper › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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