Author: James F. White
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 155635651X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent years scholars have paid increasing attention to the richness and diversity of North American contributions to Christian worship. This volume of articles by James F. White summarizes a major segment of liturgical history (1955-1995). Characteristic North American emphases, such as liturgy and justice, are highlighted along with other issues growing out of the worship context of the New World.
Author: Paul Borthwick
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2012-10-03
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0830866051
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Missions specialist Paul Borthwick brings an urgent report on how the Western church can best continue in global mission. Providing current analysis of the state of the world and Majority World opinion, Borthwick offers concrete advice for Western churches who want to avoid the pitfalls of colonialism.
Author: Darrell L. Guder
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1998-02-09
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780802843500
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What would a theology of the Church look like that took seriously the fact that North America is now itself a mission field? This question lies at the foundation of this volume written by an ecumenical team of six noted missiologists—Lois Barrett, Inagrace T. Dietterich, Darrell L. Guder, George R. Hunsberger, Alan J. Roxburgh, and Craig Van Gelder. The result of a three-year research project undertaken by The Gospel and Our Culture Network, this book issues a firm challenge for the church to recover its missional call right here in North America, while also offering the tools to help it do so. The authors examine North America s secular culture and the church s loss of dominance in today s society. They then present a biblically based theology that takes seriously the church s missional vocation and draw out the consequences of this theology for the structure and institutions of the church.
Author: Geoffrey Wainwright
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 937
ISBN-13: 0195138864
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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
Published: 2010-09-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1426715668
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Most histories of Christian worship are written as if nothing significant in liturgical history ever happened in North America, as if cultural diversities were insignificant in the development of worship, and as if most of what mattered were words the priest or minister addressed to God. This book is a revisionist work, attempting to give new direction to liturgical history by treating the experience of worship of the people in the pews as the primary liturgical document. It means liturgical history written facing the other way--that is, looking into the chancel rather than out of it. Relishing the liturgical diversity of recent centuries as firm evidence of Chritianity's ability to adapt to a wide variety of peoples and places, Professor White shows that this tendency has been apparent in Chrisitian worship since its inception in the New Testament churches. Instead of imposing one tradition's criteria on worship, he tries to give a balanced and comprehensive approach to the development of the dozen or more traditions surviving in the modern world.
Author: John D. Witvliet
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2007-01-22
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 0802807674
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The biblical Psalms in Christian worship : a brief introduction and guide to resources by John D. Witvliet (2007).
Author: David F. Hesselgrave
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2000-05-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 158558505X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A practical approach to church planting that uses cultural and experiential data to facilitate the founding of new churches in unreached areas of the world.
Author: United Presbyterian Church of North America
Publisher:
Published: 1869
Total Pages: 23
ISBN-13:
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