Thinking Again about Assembly

Gordon W. Lathrop invites us to ponder the nature of a real Christian assembly in our contemporary virtual world. He discusses how to treasure and promote diverse assemblies and work towards their renewal.</p<

Rev. Prof. Emeritus Gordon Lathrop is the Schieren Professor of Liturgy Emeritus at the United Lutheran Seminary (USA) and a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He has degrees from Occidental College (Los Angeles) and Luther Theological Seminary (St. Paul), a doctorate in New Testament studies from the Catholic University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and honorary doctorates in theology from the University of Helsinki, the University of Iceland, the Virginia Theological Seminary, and Wartburg Theological Seminary.  He is the author of several books, including Holy Things: A Liturgical Theology (Fortress, 1993), The Four Gospels on Sunday: The New Testament and the Reform of Christian Worship (Fortress, 2012), Saving Images: The Presence of the Bible in Christian Liturgy (Fortress, 2017), and The Assembly: A Spirituality. He is a Past-President of both Societas Liturgica and the North American Academy of Liturgy.