Contemporary Models Of Worship And Spirituality

A variety of recent publications and programs have rethought how Christians can express their faith and develop their spiritual life in the modern world. This article identifies seven unique approaches to Christian worship and spirituality, and describes their commonalities and differences, providing a thought-provoking perspective from which individual Christians and particular churches or denominations can reconsider their own expressions of faith. Since the late 1960s, there has been a virtual explosion in the area of Christian spirituality. In the beginning, it started in terms of a recovery of lost spiritual traditions. This was especially true in the Roman Catholic church, which has been the home of numerous schools of spirituality, usually in terms of some religious order. One thinks of Franciscan, Dominican, Carmelite, or Ignatian spiritualities. Many of these communities discovered once again the charisma of their founders, placed this originating experience in the contempor…