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What is DOXA?

DOXA is our 18 session Diocesan Discipleship Course

DOXA is different:

it is about listening to how God is shaping ordinary Christian lives in and through worship.
it explores testimony theology.
it is rooted in Anglican worship but can be adapted for other traditions.

What’s in a name?

DOXA means ‘GLORY’. As a course title this reflects the conviction that the glory of God is encountered in the ordinary experiences of life.

Why this approach and who’s it for?

DOXA aims to offer a different style of course to others on offer.

to offer a course which would be able to engage all traditions within the diocese.
to avoid privileging one tradition at the expense of others or of representing a particular diocesan line.
to enable congregations to begin from where they were and explore faith initially from within the traditions they represented.
to focus upon ordinary Christian disciples

What DOXA’s about?

DOXA is rooted in a way of listening for God often expressed in the phrase ‘lex orandi, lex credendi’, (the law of prayer as the law of believing or what we pray indicates what we believe). For Anglicans in particular, listening for God involves:

 ‘listening to God together through worship’
attending to the interplay of Scripture, tradition and sound learning (reason) as these are webbed together in the experience of public common worship.
public prayer. Prayer is never private, even if it can be solitary. Prayer is always a participation with others in the offering of life to God in Jesus Christ.
liturgical listening. Liturgy, from the Greek ‘leitourgia’ meaning ‘public service’, is the way public prayer is configured so that our personal praying is always anchored in the wisdom of the wider Christian community.
participation. Common worship reminds us that listening for God properly requires everybody’s participation and sharing of wisdom, since otherwise our hearing will be inadequate.

 

Who should you contact?

Mrs Liz Fell

Telephone: 01709 309105
Email: elizabeth.fell@sheffield.anglican.org
 
 
Bishop Jack says 'A wide variety of people from within the Diocese have contributed to this course, representing the whole spectrum of life in the Diocese and indeed the Church of England. It is an excellent course. One of the best I have ever seen and I do recommend it wholeheartedly'.

 
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