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Nathan Jennings

The Rev. Nathan G. Jennings, PhD, a native of Austin, returned to his hometown when he joined the faculty of Seminary of the Southwest in 2005. Jennings is also the Director of Community Worship and has served as the Chair of the Anglican Studies Program at Seminary of the Southwest since 2008. Jennings is interested in liturgical theology, Christian Platonism, Ancient Near-Eastern studies, asceticism, hermeneutics and the way these disciplines intersect and inform one another. His first book, Theology as Ascetic Act: Disciplining Christian Discourse, published in 2010, represents a light revision of his doctoral dissertation and argues that Christian teaching and reflection are embodied acts analogous to, and part of, Christian asceticism. His second book, Liturgy and Theology, Economy and Reality, Wipf and Stock 2017, argues for a Christian metaphysical realism, presenting liturgy as a cosmic gift economy whereby God renders cosmos out of chaos. He is currently working on a popular academic primer on philosophical or, natural theology.

The Way of Love: Pray

Part of a series on The Way of Love. By Nathan Jennings Bishop Curry’s Way of Love provides the church with “practices for a Jesus-centered life.” Many of these practices are traditional Christian discipl... Read More...

Jeremy Taylor’s Eucharistic Rite Revisited, Part 3

A Eucharistic Prayer By Nathan Jennings and Richelle Thompson In this series, we offer prayers edited from the corpus of Jeremy Taylor as examples of alternative liturgical texts deriving from local liturgi... Read More...

Jeremy Taylor’s Eucharistic Rite Revisited, Part 2

Material for the Holy Communion By Nathan Jennings and Richelle Thompson In this series, we offer prayers edited from the corpus of Jeremy Taylor as examples of alternative liturgical texts deriving from lo... Read More...

Jeremy Taylor’s Eucharistic Rite Revisited, Part 1

Material for the Service of the Word By Nathan Jennings and Richelle Thompson The phrase “experimental liturgy” often evoke a sense of leaving behind traditional texts, shapes and language use. At a time wh... Read More...

A Window into Conservative Thought

Roger Scruton provides a voice of gentle, thoughtful, intellectually rigorous traditional conservatism.

The impulse to revise: The habit of American prayer books

Is prayer book revision a rational response to a current encounter? Or could this perhaps represent a more habitual response?

A concise prayer book

Many want to be reconnected to a tradition from which they feel distanced. They want ancient, connected, continuous, simple, transformative liturgy.

Appointed to be read: The Authorized Version, my go-to Bible

I have recently found myself reading the Authorized Version (a.k.a. the King James Version) for my devotions.