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A Sociological History of Christian Worship

A Sociological History of Christian Worship
Author: Martin D. Stringer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2005-07-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1139445464

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In this book the 2000 year history of Christian worship is viewed from a sociological perspective. Martin Stringer develops the idea of discourse as a way of understanding the place of Christian worship within its many and diverse social contexts. Beginning with the Biblical material the author provides a broad survey of changes over 2000 years of the Christian church, together with a series of case studies that highlight particular elements of the worship, or specific theoretical applications. Stringer does not simply examine the mainstream traditions of Christian worship in Europe and Byzantium, but also gives space to lesser-known traditions in Armenia, India, Ethiopia and elsewhere. Offering a contribution to the ongoing debate that breaks away from a purely textual or theological study of Christian worship, this book provides a greater understanding of the place of worship in its social and cultural context.


Ancient Christian Worship

Ancient Christian Worship
Author: Andrew B. McGowan
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 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.


At the Origins of Christian Worship

At the Origins of Christian Worship
Author: Larry W. Hurtado
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2000-09-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802847492

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"At the Origins of Christian Worship" can deepen readers' understanding of early Christian worship by setting it within the context of the Roman world in which it developed. Hurtado highlights the two central characteristics of earliest Christian worship: its exclusive rejection of the ancient-world gods and its inclusion of Christ with God as the focus of devotion.


A Sociological History of Christian Worship

A Sociological History of Christian Worship
Author: Martin D. Stringer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2005-07-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521819558

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A 2000 year history of Christian worship in its social contexts around the globe combining sociological theory, social history and the latest developments in the study of liturgy. The focus of this book sets it apart from existing studies which tend to offer textual or theological approaches to worship.


The Oxford History of Christian Worship

The Oxford History of Christian Worship
Author: Geoffrey Wainwright
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 937
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 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.


A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship

A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship
Author: Lester Ruth
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 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.


By the Vision of Another World

By the Vision of Another World
Author: James D. Bratt
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 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 Primer on Christian Worship

A Primer on Christian Worship
Author: William Dyrness
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2009-02-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802860389

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"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.


Worship in the Early Church

Worship in the Early Church
Author: Ralph P. Martin
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1974
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802816139

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Refers to New Testament teachings while delineating the nature of early Christian worship of God. Bibliogs.


A Brief History of Christian Worship

A Brief History of Christian Worship
Author: James F. White
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1426715668

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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.