Where Two or Three Are Gathered: Liturgy and the Moral Life

Written for a broadly ecumenical audience Where Two or Three Are Gathered explores what Harmon Smith calls the universe of discourse between the language of Christian worship and the language of morals. Following the customary order of the churchs liturgy Smith demostrates how worship is meant to engender personal and social holiness and how for example prayer the eucharist and baptism are inextricably tied to our moral understanding of such searing and conflicted issues as captital punishment pacifism and warfare surrogacy and physician-assisted suicide.