Worship and Christian Identity argues that sacramental and liturgical practices are the crucial capability through which a church shapes the religion, personality, and awareness of its participants. accordingly, for any church to put aside such practices as outmoded or beside the point is to put aside the capability through which the church nurtures and sustains its theological identification. From this angle, Anderson explores the subsequent questions: what's the courting among worship and trust? what's the courting among company worship and the formation of Christian people and groups? what's the courting among worship and our wisdom of ourselves, our global, and God? How may perhaps our consciousness to the reform and renewal of worship and sacramental perform supply a framework for theological, evangelical, and sacramental renewal?

Questions of sacramental perform, inclusive or transformative language, and the renewal of congregational hymnody were mostly displaced by means of advertising questions and conflicts among "traditional" and ?contemporary? worship. The hour of worship is subdivided now into more and more really expert ?target audiences? of singles, seekers, boomers, and ?X-ers? with worship conscientiously packaged as ?traditional? or ?contemporary.? What at numerous issues has been understood as a ?means of grace? is now noticeable basically as a ?means of numerical growth.?

Missing within the clash among ?traditional? and ?contemporary? worship is critical dialogue of what's at stake for the id of Christian individuals and groups within the form and perform of worship. maybe extra remarkable, dialogue of the theological form and perform of worship additionally has been absent in discussions pertaining to theological criteria. those absences recommend that for plenty of within the church at the present time, worship is a way for expressing a community's trust yet has little to do with the form and personality of that belief.

The assumption that worship is barely or basically a practical potential for expressing a community?s trust stands in sharp distinction to the Christian culture. This assumption additionally contrasts with the insights supplied via contemporary paintings in ritual stories, psychology, and religion development.

Worship and Christian Identity is a vital ebook for college and scholars in seminary and graduate courses in liturgical experiences and spiritual schooling, fairly these attracted to the relationships among liturgical reports and useful theology, ritual stories and liturgical theology, in addition to the position of worship in Christian formation.

Chapters are ?Making Claims approximately Worship,? ?Worship as Ritual Knowledge,? ?Worship as Ritual Practice,? ?Trinitarian Grammar and the Christian Self,? ?Trinitarian Grammar and Liturgical Practice,? and ?A imaginative and prescient of Christian Life.?