Essays on the History of Contemporary Praise and Worship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essays on the History of Contemporary Praise and Worship write by Lester Ruth. This book was released on 2020-03-09. Essays on the History of Contemporary Praise and Worship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seeking to push the historical study of the liturgical phenomenon known as "Contemporary Worship" or "Praise and Worship" to a new level, this collection of essays offers an introduction to the phenomenon, documents critical aspects of its development, and suggests methods for future historical study. This multi-authored work investigates topics in both the Pentecostal and mainline branches of this way of worship, looking at subjects little explored by prior work. The provocative issues explored include Integrity Hosanna! Music, James White, charismatic renewal, John Wimber, the development of second services, Black Gospel, overlooked (non-white) sources of worship music, degree programs for worship leaders, and Robert Webber.
A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship
A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship write by Lester Ruth. This book was released on 2021-12-07. A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Worship, Music, and Interpretation
Worship, Music, and Interpretation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Worship, Music, and Interpretation write by Wendy J. Porter. This book was released on 2024-09-30. Worship, Music, and Interpretation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This unique volume brings together wide-ranging research that could only be written by someone singularly expert in the full range of Christian worship and music from ancient to modern. These essays by Wendy Porter span eras and areas of study from the New Testament to the present and encompass an expansive view of worship, music, and liturgy. Some focus on what is known (or not) about early Christian worship, including the early creeds and hymns in the New Testament and whether music originated in Jewish or Greco-Roman contexts. Some introduce firsthand work on ancient liturgical manuscripts, such as a sixth-century manuscript by hymnwriter and preacher Romanos Melodus or a tenth-century ekphonetic liturgical manuscript. Extending her research on sixteenth-century English composers as musical interpreters, Porter includes several papers on how musicians have functioned as theological interpreters in worship and music. One chapter engages theological comparisons between well-known compositions by Bach, Beethoven, and Stravinsky, another creatively explores what contemporary worship leaders can learn from sixteenth-century songwriter and worship leader William Byrd, while others invite thoughtful reflection on what we can all learn if we stop to consider how Christians have functioned and fared in their worship through the centuries.
Renewal Worship
Renewal Worship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Renewal Worship write by Steven Félix-Jäger. This book was released on 2022-09-06. Renewal Worship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theologian Steven Félix-Jäger offers a theology of renewal worship, including its biblical foundations, how its global nature is expressed in particular localities, and how charismatic worship shapes the community of faith. With this guidance, the whole church might better understand what it means to pray, "Come, Holy Spirit!"
Worship at a Crossroads
Worship at a Crossroads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Worship at a Crossroads write by Melinda A. Quivik. This book was released on 2023-04-13. Worship at a Crossroads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book calls Protestant churches, and the ELCA in particular, to a church-wide conversation about racism. It is a response to the 2019 book Dear Church by Lenny Duncan, a former Lutheran pastor who is Black and who, among other reparations, calls for changing the church's worship in order to address segregated Sundays. Changes in worship affect theological foundations. Informed consideration is essential. Because entering into life-changing conversations requires vulnerability and commitment, this book includes several narratives: my life as a White woman and pastor, the history of the Black church as defined by Black theologians, the development of the liturgical renewal movement, and my experiences as a professor navigating worship conflicts as my seminary struggled with financial constraints and a changing student body. The seminary conflicts offered me a window into how better to address racism inspired by the example of post-WWII German truth-telling and how some US Southern states have come to grips with the history of the Jim Crow South (described in Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans). This book outlines a way forward for churches in responding to racism by encouraging healthy engagement with contentious relationships as a necessity for healing.
