Synopses & Reviews
This multivolume work by Hughes Oliphant Old canvasses the history of preaching from the biblical period through modern times. These books explore the theme of preaching as Christian worship, looking especially at how preaching throughout history has been done as a sacred service.
This book offers a significant evaluation of the two newest Reformed American Presbyterian and Church of Scotland liturgies, Common Order (1994) and the Book of Common Worship (1993). International scholars examine the background and content of these recent liturgical compilations and discuss the contributions that these liturgies have made to worship in the late twentieth-century church.
Table of Contents
Common order : an introduction / Charles Robertson -- Book of common worship (1993) : the Presbyterian Church (USA), 'origins and anticipations' / Horace Allen -- The making of the Book of common worship (1993) / Harold M. Daniels -- Common order (1994) : pioneering spirit or reflective mode? / Tom Davidson Kelly -- From Braveheart to faint-heart : worship and culture in postmodern Scotland / William Storrar -- Canon and lection / John Goldingay -- What's the story? : the doctrine of God in Common order and in the Book of common worship / Kathryn Greene-McCreight -- The Book of common worship-- the book of Common order : what do they say and what do they assume about Christ? / Arlo D. Duba -- Universalism in Common order (1994) and the Book of common worship (1993) / David C. Searle -- Fear of being left out and confidence in being included : the liturgical celebration of ecclesial boundaries. A comment on the baptismal liturgies of the Book of common worship (1993) and Common order (1994) / Iain Torrance --