This eight-volume series is designed to serve as a comprehensive reference for professors and students, an invaluable and practical tool for pastors and worship leaders, and an inspirational companion to Scripture for lay people. The series features the scholarship of over 600 contributing editors; resources from more than 150 publishers and several thousand texts and publications; and covers topics ranging from Old and New Testament worship to contemporary applications for music and the arts, Sunday worship, special seasons of the Christian year, and activities for outreach ministry.Volume Titles:
Volume 1: . The Biblical Foundations of Christian Worship
Volume 2: Twenty Centuries of Christian Worship
Volume 3: The Renewal of Sunday Worship
Volume 4A: Music and the Arts in Christian Worship Part 1
Volume 4B: Music and the Arts in Christian Worship Part 2
Volume 5: The Services of the Christian Year
Volume 6: The Sacred Actions of Christian Worship
Volume 7: The Ministries of Christian Worship
Robert E. Webber (1933 - 2007)
was an American theologian known for his work on worship and the early church. He played a key role in the Convergence Movement, a move among evangelical and charismatic churches in the United States to blend charismatic worship with liturgies from the Book of Common Prayer and other liturgical sources. Webber began teaching theology at Wheaton College in 1968. Existentialism was the primary focus of Webber's research and lectures during his first years at Wheaton. However, he soon shifted his focus to the early church. In 1978 he wrote Common Roots, a book that examined the impact of 2nd-century Christianity on the modern church.In 1985 Webber wrote Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church, in which he described the reasons behind his own gradual shift away from his fundamentalist/evangelical background toward the Anglican tradition. Webber faced an enormous amount of criticism from evangelicals in response to this book. Nevertheless, his work was highly influential, and his ideas grew in popularity in evangelical circles. During the latter half of his life, Webber took a special interest in Christian worship practices. He wrote more than 40 books on the topic of worship, focusing on how the worship practices of the ancient church have value for the church in the 21st century postmodern era. Among his books are Ancient-Future Worship, Ancient-Future Faith, Ancient-Future Time, Ancient-Future Evangelism, The Younger Evangelicals, and The Divine Embrace.
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