Refresh. Renew. Reorient. Dig deeply into why and how we worship. Bob Webber, the Ancient-Future expert on worship, gives you a guided tour of culture, symbol, postmodernism, generational trends, Church history, in bite-size essays, awakening new hope, deeper understanding, and a passion to know God and worship him.
Worship Leaders are the avatars of new music. This always brings the promise and hope of new songs for devotional and congregational worship. Yet, as we all know, refreshing worship is more than simply creating, producing and singing new music, it is connecting with the New Song of heaven, with Christ himself through all available means: silence, song and symbol; Scripture, preaching and prophecy; communion and community…and beyond. Bob Webber brings clarity to the difference between new music and New Song and ignites the renewal we seek in today’s Church.
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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