{"title":"Books by David W. 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The sacred with the secular? This study proposes that the liturgy calls us, in the words of Aidan Kavanagh, “to do the world as the world was meant to be done.” The sacramental liturgy of the Church and the personal liturgy of our lives should be as a seamless garment. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eConsecrating the World \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003econtinues David Fagerberg’s exploration of the Church’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003elex orandi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (law of prayer) by expanding two major themes. The first considers liturgy as the matrix wherein our encounter with God becomes an experience of primary theology. The second illustrates how a believer is made ready for this liturgy through asceticism in both its faces — the one negative (dealing with sin), the other positive (dealing with sanctification). This book turns these two themes outward to a liturgical theology of the cosmos — a mundane liturgical theology of the consecration of the world and the sanctification of our daily life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Angelico Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46745080791358,"sku":"9781621381686","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46745080824126,"sku":"9781621382041","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8044\/7550\/files\/FAGERBERG-CONSECRATINGTHEWORLD.jpg?v=1757008246"},{"product_id":"desiring-to-desire-god-david-fagerberg","title":"Desiring to Desire God","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo pray is best; to want to pray is good; to want to want to pray is the first touch by God. A person who is in that last condition is the subject of this book, because it turns out that even desiring to desire can be an expression of love. All the authors quoted herein are Catholic spiritual writers from between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries whom David Fagerberg categorizes as \u003cem\u003etheologians of abnegation\u003c\/em\u003e because they take seriously Jesus’s words: “Deny yourself and follow me.” That abnegation has both a negative and a positive face: it is the cure for a sickness unto death, but it is also uplifting because it rejoices in the charity of God. This book is about the latter face of abnegation, so often overlooked. And it turns out that this view of abnegation is accomplished by liturgical theology—the key that turns so many locks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Angelico Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48906290069822,"sku":"978-1-62138-969-9","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48906290102590,"sku":"978-1-62138-970-5","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8044\/7550\/files\/FAGERBERG-DESIRINGTODESIREGOD.jpg?v=1757008256"},{"product_id":"deny-yourself-and-follow-me-david-w-fagerberg","title":"Deny Yourself and Follow Me","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJesus set down a hard requirement for discipleship: to deny oneself and take up one’s cross. Christian tradition gave this self-denial the name abnegation, and over the centuries spiritual writers treated it as essential to the Christian life. Drawing especially on Catholic authors from 1500 to 1900, this book approaches abnegation from a perspective often neglected today: the liturgical life. Abnegation, the author argues, is not merely moral discipline or gloomy renunciation; it is fundamentally an act of worship. To unite oneself to the will of Christ is to relinquish the rule of one’s own will and participate in Christ’s offering to the Father. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSin seeks self-glory; liturgy seeks the glory of God. In this light, self-denial becomes not an end in itself, but a movement of love through which worship is purified and redirected toward its true object. Placed within the horizon of liturgy, the vocabulary of abnegation, annihilation, and mortification takes on a different character altogether. What can appear severe or forbidding becomes mystical rather than merely moralistic: an act of love at the heart of Christian worship, belonging not only to monasteries or spiritual elites, but to the whole Church before God.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Angelico Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53653190738238,"sku":"979-8-89280-189-8","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":53653190771006,"sku":"979-8-89280-190-4","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8044\/7550\/files\/FAGERBERG-DENYYOURSELFANDFOLLOWME.jpg?v=1780066132"}],"url":"https:\/\/angelicopress.com\/collections\/more-by-this-author-david-w-fagerberg.oembed","provider":"Angelico Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}