Автор:Christopher J.Ellis Год: 2010 Издание:
Книга по Требованию Страниц: 336 ISBN: 9780334029670 Most ecumenical work on worship has been greatly influenced by those traditions which use written liturgical texts and who give a normative place to the Eucharist. Here Free Church worship however is studied on its own terms allowing its ecumenical contribution to be fully appreciaed. Using a study of Baptist worship, Gathering explores the spirituality implicit in a worship tradition which to dated has received little theological or historical attention. "What makes this book refreshing is that [Ellis] is not a prisoner to the view that the job of the liturgical movement is really to formalize "free" worship in some way, and introduce a weekly eucharist.(...)Ellis's source-use, together with his sensitivity to context, architecture and hymnody included, provides a rich picture of an evolving tradition, with its own theological emphases and its own way of doing the liturgy.(...)He is to be congratulated not only on the account he has given of a story that many of us have only known...