Gifted Response : The Triune God as the Causative Agency of our Responsive Worship

by Ngien, Dennis

• ISBN13: 9781842276105
• ISBN10: 1842276107
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-20
• Publisher: Authentic USA

Summary

Much of the contemporary church's emphasis on worship has been on the 'how-to' aspect of worship and the discussion has been largely devoid of theological underpinning. This book seeks to fill that dangerous gap in the literature by means of an analysis of the theo-logic of worship in five major Christian thinkers:- Basil of Caesarea- Anselm of Canterbury- Bernard of Clairvaux- Martin Luther- John CalvinThe unifying theme that runs through these theologians is that worship is God's gift, in which we participate. The God who initiates his movement toward us in order to make worship through the Son in the Spirit possible is the same one who draws us into the heavenly sanctuary through the Son in the Spirit.

Author Biography

Dennis Ngien is Research Professor of Theology at Tyndale University College and Seminary, and founder of the Centre for Mentorship and Theological Reflection, Toronto, Canada. He is a Fellow at the Centre for Reformation Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
The Spirit ôWorshipped and Glorifiedö as the Perfecting Cause of Our Worship in Basil of Caesarea's De Spiritu Sancto	p. 1
The Necessary Reason for Worship: On Praising the Superlative Deity in St. Anselm's Proslogion	p. 35
Participation in the Constitutive Kiss: Worship in Bernard of Clairvaux's Song of Songs	p. 36
Worship as Radical Reversal in Martin Luther's Theologia Crucis	p. 105
The Trinitarian Dynamic of Worship in John Calvin' Institutes (1559)	p. 136
Bibliography	p. 170
General Index	p. 180
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