Descriptions Of Worship Renewal
These entries survey styles of worship and the ways in which renewal is restoring or modifying those styles. The seven styles include liturgical, traditional Protestant, creative, charismatic, praise and worship, convergence, and seekers'/believers' worship. The survey suggests that in many traditions renewal means not only discovering new ways to worship, but also rediscovering the roots of the worshipers' particular heritage. Much renewal in worship blends two or more of these styles into a new hybrid.…
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Chapters & Articles in Descriptions Of Worship Renewal (7)
Broadly speaking, the contemporary renewal of worship in the Western world can be classified as follows: (1) liturg…
Traditional Protestant worship has benefited from the findings of modern scholarship regarding early Christian prac…
Liturgical creativity is the process by which succeeding generations make traditions of Christian worship their own…
Charismatic worship is in itself a renewal movement that has had an impact on almost every denomination. It might b…
The praise-and-worship tradition is found mainly among charismatic churches and those churches influenced by recent…
Convergence worship is the coming together of historic and contemporary worship. This approach to worship follows t…
The seekers' service is a form of evangelism more than a form of actual worship. The model has been developed at Wi…