Worship – General Topics
Saturday, August 7, 2010 at 2:22PM "It is well known that the character of its song,
almost equal with the character of its preaching,
controls the theology of a church."
(from the preface of the Trinity Hymnal (1961))
Theology of Worship
Best, Harold, Unceasing Worship: Biblical Perspectives on Worship and the Arts, Intervarsity Press, Downers
Grove IL, 2003, 226 p.
______. Music Through the Eyes of Faith, 1993.
Carson, D. A., Worship by the Book, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 2002, 256 p.
Dawn, Marva J., A Royal “Waste” of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World, Grand Rapids Michigan/ Cambridge U.K., Wm B. Eerdmans, 1999, 377 p.
________. How Shall We Worship? : Biblical Guidelines for the Worship Wars, Carol Stream Illinois, Tyndale House, 2003, 191 p.
________. Reaching Out without Dumbing Down : A Theology of Worship for the Turn-of-the-Century Culture, Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans, 1995, 316 p.
Gaebelein, Frank, The Christian, the Arts, and Truth: Regaining the Vision of Greatness, D. Bruce Lockerbie, Ed. Multnomah Press, 1985, 261 p. (The aesthetic problem. The relation of Biblical truth and the arts. Criteria for true art.)
Gordon, T. David, Why Johny Can’t Sing Hymns: How Pop Culture Rewrote the Hymnal, 2010.
Guinness, Os, Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance, Grand Rapids, Baker Books, 2003, 123 p. (How can the Christian remain faithful in a worldly and materialistic culture? How should we proclaim the message of Good News in a world that seeks “relevance” ?)
Hatchett, Marion J. Sanctifying Life, Time and Space.
McKinnon (James), Music in Early Christian Literature, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987, 180 p.
Pass, David, Music and the Church, A Theology of Church Music, Broadman Press, Nashville TN, 1989, 131 p.
Peterson, David. Engaging with God: A Biblical Theology of Worship.
Sayers, Dorothy, "The Mind of the Maker", Methuen, 1941, in : Dorothy L. Sayers: Spiritual Writings, selected, introduced by Ann Loades, Boston, Cowley Publications, 1993, 184 p.
Schaeffer, Francis A., How then Should We Live? : The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture, Fleming H. Revell, Old Tappan, New Jersey, 1976, 288 p.
Shepherd, Massey H. Jr. The Worship of the Church.
Torrance, James B. Worship, Community and the Trinune God of Grace.
(Many thanks to Dr. Margaret Petty for many of these titles.)
