no. 1 The Popular Passion piety of the Catholic West/ Gerard S. Sloyan--pp. 2-28 Speaking and learning in the Local Church:A Look at the Materail Conditions/Michael Warren--pp.28-51 Liturgical Expressions of Care for the poor in the Wesleyan Traditon:A Case Study for the Ecumenical Church/Karren Westerfield Tucker--pp.51-64 Forum: Creating Worship Events/Pamela Ann Moeller--pp.65-78 The Amen Corner/Nathan Mitchell--pp.78-89 no.2 The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan and the Descent into Hell/Killan McDonnell--pp.98-109 Priestly Identity:Sacrament of the Ecclesial Community/Susan K. Wood--109-127 The Newly Revised Roman Rite for Celebrating Marriage/German Martinez--pp.127-142 Silence in the Liturgy/Joseph Dougherty--pp.142-154 The Amen Corner/Nathan Mitchell--pp.154-163 no.3 " Worship Alive": An Analysis and critique of "Alternative Worship Services"/Frank C. Senn--pp.194-224 Liturgy an Culture Revisited/david N. Power--pp.225-243 The Sacred in Art: Introducing Father Marie-Alain Couturier's Aesthetic/Joanna Weber--pp.243-262 The Amen Corner/Gerard S. Sloyan--pp.263-269 no.4 Culture: The Beloved Antagonist/Daniel B. Stevick--pp.290-305 Hnads and Hocus-Pocus: The Manual Acts in the Eucharistic Prayer/Donald Gray--pp.306-313 Musical Forms, Referential Meaning and Belief/Edward Foley--pp.314-333 Communal Pennace Services in the Context of Sixteenth-Century Reform Efforts/Franz Posset--pp.334-345 We Are How We Worship:Corporate Worship as a Matrix for Christian identity Formation/Paul H. Jones--pp.346-360 The Amen Corner/NMathen Mitchell--pp.361-370 no.5 ARC-CUSA: Five Affirmations on the Eucharist as Sacrifice/R. William Franklin--pp.386-390 Anamnesis and Sacrifice in episcopal Ecumenical Dialogues/Charles P. Price--pp.391-393 The Eucharist as Sacrifice: Some Contemporary Roman Catholic Reflections/Joanne M. Pierce--pp.394-405 Form and Function in the Early Synagogue and Church/Marilyn J Chiat--pp.406-426 The Rule of Music as Ritual Symbol in Roman Catholic Liturgy/Judith Marie Kubicki--pp.427-446 The Amen Corner/Nathan Mitchell--pp.447-456 no.6 Performance,Practice and Meaning in Christian Baptism/E.Byron Anderson--pp.482-504 Gender Analysis and Christian Initiation/Catherine Vincie--pp.505-530 A Eucharistic Millenial Jubilee/Thomas J. Reese--pp.531-537 Advent and the Evangelical Struggle for Cultural Symbols/Terrance W. Klein--pp.538-556 The Amen Corner/Nathan Mitchell--pp.556-565