The serious business of worship : essays in honor of Bryan D. Spinks /: essays in honor of Bryan D. Spinks. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Melanie C. Ross and Simon Jones.
• Other Names: Ross, Melanie C; Jones, Simon, 1956-
• Contents: Preface / Iain Torrance -- The serious business of worship / Bryan D. Spinks -- An octopus in a matchbox : an introduction to the work of Bryan D. Spinks / Melanie C. Ross -- Part 1. Early Church and Eastern Traditions : -- 1. St. John Chrysostom, preacher committed to the seriousness of worship / Robert Taft -- 2. The 'opening of the door' ceremony on Palm Sunday in the Armenian church / Michael Daniel Findikyan -- 3. A tension between private and public prayer? : reflections on the origins of the day hours / Gregory Woolfenden -- 4. The East Syrian eucharistic prayers / Anthony Gelston -- 5. Varieties of early Christian baptismal anointing / Paul Bradshaw -- Part 2. Patristic and Reformation Eras : -- 6. The Transfiguration sermon of Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny / Kenneth Stevenson -- 7. Is the institution narrative necessary in the eucharist? : the opinion of Martin Bucer, Corpus Christi, Cambridge, MS 113, pp. 315-324 / Gordon Jeanes -- 8. Metrical psalms and canticles, the Book of Common Prayer, and Thomas Cranmer / Robin A. Leaver -- Part 3. Contemporary Liturgical Reform : -- 9. The Berkeley rite / Joseph Britton -- 10. Two models of inculturation and eucharistic prayers with children / Phillip Tovey -- 11. 'Outward ceremony and honourable badege' : the theological significance of the sign of the cross in the baptistmal liturgies of the Church of England and Scottish Episcopal Church / Simon Jones -- 12. Is ecumenical worship a serious business? (two case studies and a funeral) / Siobhán Garrigan -- 13. Is anything normative in contemporary Lutheran worship? / Maxwell E. Johnson -- 14. The serious drama of worship / Melanie C. Ross -- 15. From 'DNA' to 'cellular structure' : charting recent evangelical scholarly engagement with corporate worship practices / John D. Witvliet.
• Publisher Details: London : T & T Clark
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 229 pages), portrait
• Subjects: 264.03; Religion -- Theology; Public worship; Liturgics; RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / Worship & Liturgy; RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations; Theology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567006097; 0567006093
• Related ISBNs: 0567033260; 9780567033260; 0567642321; 9780567642325
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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