Book Notice: WORSHIP: ADORATION AND ACTION, edited by D. A. Carson

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Editor’s Note: This book from D.A. Carson has been available for quite a few years now, but it still speaks insightfully to a very contemporary topic. We highlight it again here for younger readers and any who may have missed it. The first three chapters alone are “must reading” for any study of the subject.

Table of Contents

1. ‘Worship the Lord Your God’: The Perennial Challenge – D. A. Carson
2. Theology of Worship in the Old Testament – Yoshiaki Hattori
3. Worship in the New Testament – David Peterson
4. The Reformed Liturgy in the Dutch Tradition – Klaas Runia
5. Presbyterian Worship – Edmund Clowney
6. Worship in Anglicanism – Roger Beckwith
7. Worship in Lutheranism – Norvald Yri
8. ‘Free Church’ Worship in Britain – Peter Lewis
9. Some Reflections on the Meaning and Practice of Worship from inside South America – Felicity Houghton
10. Worship in the Independent/Free Church/Congregational Tradition: A View from the Two-Thirds World – Guillermo Mendez
11. Charismatically-oriented Worship – Alistair Brown
12. Patterns of Worship Among Students Worldwide – Sue Brown
13. Worship as Adoration and Action: Reflections on a Christian Way of Being-in-the World – Miroslav Volf

Selected Quotes

• “Accordingly, worship is the entire attitude of one’s life or being in relationship to God the Creator.” (21)
• “Worship is a comprehensive category in the New Testament, describing our engagement with God through faith in Jesus Christ and what he has done for us.” (52)
• “Acceptable worship is something that God makes possible for us, through Christ: it does not depend on our own initiative, creativity, skill, or worthiness.” (52)
• “A preacher, a church, a pope has no right to require Christians to believe what the Bible does not teach. No more does a preacher, a church, a pope have the right to require practices in worship that God has not required.” (113)
• “By ‘worship’ we understand that engagement with God through faith in Jesus Christ expressed in daily obedience to God in every aspect of life, or service to him on all planes of human existence.” (171)
• “…the greatest danger facing Christian students today…is the danger of falling into a shallow, superficial understanding of worship and therefore of what it means to be a Christian.” (197)
• “They are at the same time the two constitutive elements of Christian worship: authentic Christian worship takes place in a rhythm of adoration and action.” (207)

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WORSHIP: ADORATION AND ACTION, edited by D. A. Carson

Wipf & Stock, 2002 | 256 pages

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