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Title: Worship in the Early Church by Ralph P. Martin ISBN: 0-8028-1613-4 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1975 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: An Overly Simplistic Picture, but not a Bad Start.
Comment: Dr. Martin has provided us with a good, solid, although less than profound, primer on early Christian worship. This is the right book for high-school-age Sunday School classes, and for adults begin initial studies on the Christian liturgies. This text is insufficient, however, for more advanced reading.
With a well crafted vocabulary, a solid understanding of the subject matter, and an obvious infusion of Dr. Martin's own, deep faith, this is a delightful book.
Its only short-fall is that Dr. Martin paints the image of early Christian unity in faith, doctrine, and practice with too wide a brush. Thus, we read "The Resurrection is by common consent the decisive element in THE kerygma..." (p. 75, emphasis mine), even though James D.G. Dunn (Unity and Diversity in the New Testament: An Inquiry into the Character of Earliest Christianity, Trinity Press 1990) and others have argued conclusively for multiple kerygmata in the earliest Church. In fact, for 49 pages (124-173) Dunn demonstrates explicitly and convincingly the complex variety in early Christian worship and sacramental practice. Martin, on the other hand, paints a rather flat image of an unified Church in which all the faithful believed the same doctrines, adhered to the "Didache," and smoothed over the differences between the synoptic Gospels, the Gospel according the Saint John, and the Pauline Epistles.
Dr. Martin's book is an excellent place to begin a study of the Christian liturgies, especially if the reader remembers that it is only a starting point.
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Title: Worship: Rediscovering the Missing Jewel by Ronald Allen, Gordon Borror ISBN: 1579103332 Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: A Royal "Waste" of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World by Marva J. Dawn ISBN: 080284586X Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Experiencing God in Worship: Perspectives on the Future of Worship in the Church from Today's Most Prominent Leaders by Michael D. Warden ISBN: 0764421336 Publisher: Group Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: A Brief History of Christian Worship by James F. White ISBN: 0687034140 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The New Worship: Straight Talk on Music and the Church by Barry Wayne Liesch, Donald P. Hustad, Barry Liesch ISBN: 0801063566 Publisher: Baker Books Pub. Date: 21 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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