Ancient Christian Worship
Ancient Christian Worship

Author: Andrew B. McGowan

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1441246312

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An Important Study on the Worship of the Early Church This introduction to the origins of Christian worship illuminates the importance of ancient liturgical patterns for contemporary Christian practice. Andrew McGowan takes a fresh approach to understanding how Christians came to worship in the distinctive forms still familiar today. Deftly and expertly processing the bewildering complexity of the ancient sources into lucid, fluent exposition, he sets aside common misperceptions to explore the roots of Christian ritual practices--including the Eucharist, baptism, communal prayer, preaching, Scripture reading, and music--in their earliest recoverable settings. Now in paper.

The Oxford History of Christian Worship
The Oxford History of Christian Worship

Author: Geoffrey Wainwright

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 937

ISBN-13: 0195138864

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"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.

By the Vision of Another World
By the Vision of Another World

Author: James D. Bratt

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0802867103

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This book samples the rich variety of worship practices in American history to show how worship can be a fruitful subject for historians to study and how past cases can enrich our understanding of worship today. By the Vision of Another World gathers highly regarded historians who usually are not read together because of the widely different subjects on which they typically work. Yet their essays all fit together here as they address how worship, work, and worldview converge and reinforce each other no matter what particular place, era, denomination, or ethnic/racial group is under consideration. The variety of methodologies and voices will appeal to a breadth of critical interests, while the consistently high quality of historical narrative will keep readers engaged.

A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship
A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship

Author: Lester Ruth

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2021-12-07

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1493432540

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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.

The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship
The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship

Author: Paul F. Bradshaw

Publisher: SPCK Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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This text re-examines the great variety of liturgical practices in the first four centuries in the light of modern Jewish and Christian scholarship.

Traditional Ritual as Christian Worship
Traditional Ritual as Christian Worship

Author: Burrows, William R.

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 2018-03-27

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1608337278

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A necessary task of missionaries in recent decades has been to help local Christians "inculturate" or "contextualize" their faith, although the criteria for doing so often came from outside the context in which new believers developed their understanding of Christianity. Highlighting the voices of non-Western scholars, this work recognizes the importance of ritual and ceremony in the life of communities that seek to worship God in ways that reflect culturally appropriate responses to Scripture. The contributors -- some of missiology's leading lights -- discuss rituals, beliefs, and practices of diverse peoples, supporting the conclusion that orthodox Christianity is hybrid Christianity.