Author : James F. White
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664250379
Provides an overview of Protestant worship and examines the origins, development, and present characteristics of nine different Protestant traditions
Author : Lester Ruth
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493432540
Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (History & Biography) New forms of worship have transformed the face of the American church over the past fifty years. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, including interviews with dozens of important stakeholders and key players, this volume by two worship experts offers the first comprehensive history of Contemporary Praise & Worship. The authors provide insight into where this phenomenon began and how it reshaped the Protestant church. They also emphasize the span of denominational, regional, and ethnic expressions of contemporary worship.
Author : William Dyrness
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802860389
"A respected scholar of theology and culture, William Dyrness here explores Christian worship in terms of its past, present, and future. He shows where the church has been, theologically and historically speaking, and how that shapes - and needs to shape -where the church will go. Through accessible language, clear examples, and thoughtful questions for reflection and discussion, Dyrness makes an essential conversation about worship available to a wide audience of pastors, worship leaders, and church members." --Book Jacket.
Author : Melanie C. Ross
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493434985
This volume brings together an ecumenical team of scholars to offer a historical overview of how worship developed. The book first orients readers to the common core elements the global church shares in the history and development of worship theology and historical practice. It then introduces the major streams of worship practice: Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant, including Reformation traditions, evangelicalism, and Pentecostalism. The book includes introductions by John Witvliet and Nicholas Wolterstorff. A previous volume addressed the theological foundations of worship.
Author : Jonathan Gibson
Publisher : New Growth Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2018-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 194813022X
Worship is the right, fitting, and delightful response of moral beings—angelic and human—to God the Creator, Redeemer, and Consummator, for who he is as one eternal God in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—and for what he has done in creation and redemption, and for what he will do in the coming consummation, to whom be all praise ...
Author : Geoffrey Wainwright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 937 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0195138864
"The Oxford History of Christian Worship is a comprehensive and authoritative history, lavishly illustrated, of the origins and development of Christian worship up to the present day. Following contemporary methods in scholarship, it attends to social and cultural contexts and examines the worship traditions from both Eastern and Western Christianity, ancient and modern. It offers a chronological account, while encompassing spatial and confessional variations, from Baptists in Britain to Roman Catholics in Mexico, from Orthodox in Ethiopia to Pentecostals in the United States, from Lutheran and Reformed in Europe to united churches in India and Australia. The material details of Christian worship, such as music, architecture, and the visual arts, are considered within specific cultural contexts throughout the volume as well as studied thematically in individual chapters."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : James F. White
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0687091098
Introduction to Christian Worship, Third Edition traces the development of the major forms of Christian worship, and includes discussion of the newest service books of the principal churches of North America and the British Isles. This staple of liturgical history is used widely in Protestant seminaries and is read by clergy and laity alike as an accurate, informative, and accessible introduction to all aspects of Christian worship. This revision keeps pace with the latest scholarship and includes more maps, tables, woodcuts, and photographs.
Author : Bryan Chapell
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 2009-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801036402
The bestselling author of Christ-Centered Preaching provides a useful and accessible resource that traces the history of Christian worship and calls contemporary congregations to gospel faithfulness.
Author : Franklin M. Segler
Publisher : B&H Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 1995-12-29
Category : Cults
ISBN : 9780805411683
This book explores the foundations of Christian worship and addresses both age-old traditional questions and takes up the latest in contemporary controversies.
Author : James F. White
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 056737050X
A resource for everyone engaged in studying and teaching the forms and meaning of Christian worship. Praise for Documents of Christian Worship: "A treasure trove of primary sources, from many Christian traditions, this book contributes to the study and renewal of worship by allowing readers to hear what Christians of the past said they expereinced in worship." --Ruth C. Dick, Professor of Worship, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. "Documents of Christian Worship belongs in Christian libraries
