The Oxford History Of Christian Worship

by Wainwright, Geoffrey; Tucker, Karen B. Westerfield

• ISBN13: 9780195138863
• ISBN10: 0195138864
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

"The Oxford History of Christian Worship is a comprehensive and authoritative history, lavishly illustrated, of the origins and development of Christian worship up to the present day. Following contemporary methods in scholarship, it attends to social and cultural contexts and examines the worship traditions from both Eastern and Western Christianity, ancient and modern. It offers a chronological account, while encompassing spatial and confessional variations, from Baptists in Britain to Roman Catholics in Mexico, from Orthodox in Ethiopia to Pentecostals in the United States, from Lutheran and Reformed in Europe to united churches in India and Australia. The material details of Christian worship, such as music, architecture, and the visual arts, are considered within specific cultural contexts throughout the volume as well as studied thematically in individual chapters."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Geoffrey Wainwright is an ordained minister of the British Methodist Church, in addition to being the Cushman Professor of Christian Theology at Duke University Divinity School. He is the author of Doxology: The Praise of God in Worship, Doctrine, and Life (Oxford, 1980), coeditor of The Study of Liturgy (revised edition, Oxford and SPCK, 1992).
Karen Westerfield Tucker is a United Methodist elder in the Illinois Great Rivers Conference, Professor of Worship at Boston University School of Theology, and Chair of the Worship and Liturgy Committee for the World Methodist Council. She is also Assistant Editor of Studia Liturgica journal.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Editors and Contributors	xi
Christian Worship: Scriptural Basis and Theological Frame	1	(31)
Geoffrey Wainwright
The Apostolic Tradition	32	(45)
Maxwell E. Johnson
The Empire Baptized	77	(54)
John F. Baldovin
The Ancient Oriental Churches	131	(39)
Christine Chaillot
Excursus: The Maronites	170	(5)
Lucas Van Rompay
The Conversion of the Nations	175	(41)
Michael S. Driscoll
Western Christendom	216	(38)
Timothy Thibodeau
Byzantine and Slavic Orthodoxy	254	(53)
Alexander Rentel
Reforms, Protestant and Catholic	307	(44)
Nathan D. Mitchell
The Age of Revolutions	351	(44)
Conrad L. Donakowski
The Lutheran Tradition in the German Lands	395	(27)
Hans-Christoph Schmidt-Lauber
The Lutheran Tradition in Scandinavia	422	(14)
Nils-Henrik Nilsson
The Reformed Tradition in Continental Europe: Switzerland, France, and Germany	436	(27)
Bruno Burki
The Reformed Tradition in the Netherlands	463	(10)
Harry Klaassens
The Reformed Tradition in Scotland	473	(11)
Duncan B. Forrester
The Reformed Tradition in Korea	484	(8)
Seung-Joong Joo
Kyeong-Jin Kim
Anglicans and Dissenters	492	(42)
Bryan D. Spinks
The Church of South India	534	(7)
Samson Prabhakar
The Uniting Church in Australia	541	(4)
Robert W. Gribben
Mennonites	545	(15)
John Rempel
Baptists in Britain	560	(14)
Christopher Ellis
Pentecostal and Charismatic Worship	574	(12)
Telford Work
North America	586	(47)
Karen B. Westerfield Tucker
Roman Catholics in Hispanic America	633	(18)
Jaime Lara
Mainline Protestants in Latin America	651	(10)
Wilhelm Wachholz
Mission and Inculturation: East Asia and the Pacific	661	(17)
Anscar J. Chupungco
Mission and Inculturation: Africa	678	(18)
Nwaka Chris Egbulem
The Liturgical Movement and Catholic Ritual Revision	696	(25)
Andre Haquin
Ecumenical Convergences	721	(34)
Geoffrey Wainwright
Women in Worship	755	(14)
Teresa Berger
Liturgical Music	769	(24)
William T. Flynn
The Spatial Setting	793	(24)
James F. White
Visual Arts	817	(24)
Marchita Mauck
Vestments and Objects	841	(17)
Joanne M. Pierce
Retrospect and Prospect	858	(9)
Geoffrey Wainwright
Karen B. Westerfield Tucker
Biblical Index	867	(2)
Index	869