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Published on: 6/21/2008
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The book includes an introduction by the editors, a forward by retiring stated clerk, Clifton Kirkpatrick, essays by Barbara Wheeler, Darrell Guder, Michael Lindvall, Leann van Dyk, Ellen Charry, John Burgess, Martha Moore-Keish, Paul Galbreath, Douglass John Hall, Alan Falconer, and Barry Cytron and it closes with an afterword by Valerie Small, the honoree's wife.
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Attendees at the surprise event included Burgess, a former colleague in the office and now the Snowden Professor of Systematic Theology at Pittsburgh Seminary who contributed the essay, "Learning from the Orthodox about the Eucharist: Praying the Faith Makes for Thinking and Living the Faith."Wiley introduced Burgess, wryly commenting that his essay also has the longest title in the book.
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Burgess highlighted Small's achievements as author, organizer of church-wide theology conferences, developer of programs that support pastors in their theological vocation, preaching and lecturing in conferences and church events, serving on ecumenical consultations for major ecumenical bodies.He added that whenever a staff member like himself would leave the Office of Theology and Worship, "Joe would inevitably find someone better to take their place."
Burgess reflected, "Joe has a deep conviction that the church can only be the church when it lives with a sense of the whole of the faith.
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Burgess added, "That is also why for Joe worship must lie at the heart of the church's life.
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These works, according to Burgess, were made possible by Small's unusual ability to pull things together.