Post-reformation Models Of Worship
Between 1600 and 1900 a variety of new movements grew out of the Reformation. Believers within each of these movements expressed their faith in slightly different forms of worship. These 12 entries place these forms of worship in their historical context, arranges them chronologically, and provides text and commentary. However, except for Wesley's liturgy, extended texts are not available, for most Protestant groups abandoned written texts in favor of extemporaneous prayers and forms of worship. Consequently this section contains orders of worship along with commentaries that explain the order and the experience of the worshiping community.…
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Chapters & Articles in Post-reformation Models Of Worship (13)
From the landing of the Mayflower through the American Revolution, the majority of free-church clergy probably spen…
In his book The Way of the Churches of Christ in New England, John Cotton, a leading Congregational pastor of the f…
In 1643, following the outbreak of civil war in England between the Puritan-controlled Parliament and the Anglican …
Baptists emerged from a variety of Separatist congregations in seventeenth-century England. While Baptists disagree…
The worship of the Friends is rooted in silence. The people wait upon the Holy Spirit, who in the silence moves the…
The service below is strongly dependent on the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Introduction Wesley was an Anglican p…
The service below is strongly dependent on the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Text: Then shall this general Confessi…
The earliest record of a Salvation Army worship service is found in the publications of William and Catherine Booth…
No orders of service from either of Charles G. Finney's pastorates are extant. However, orders of service from the …
Early Adventist worship was simple, informal, and vigorously nonliturgical. When the first church Manual was adopte…
We find diversity in the worship practices of African-Americans. This diversity results from differences in points …
Until the rise of the Stone-Campbell movement on the American frontier, the restoration movement that began in Brit…
The Holiness Movement did not readily record its liturgy. Worship followed a common pattern familiar to its members…