A Reformed Theology Of Worship

Source: The Complete Library of Christian Worship, Robert E. Webber, General Editor

Reformed worship focuses on the majesty of God's transcendence and the frailty and sinfulness of humans. Reformed worship captures, proclaims, and enacts the gospel.

Two somewhat contradictory images might be used to introduce the theology of Reformed worship: the majestic vision and call of Isaiah in the temple (Isa. 6:18), and the depiction of the high-pulpited Congregational church in Melville's Moby Dick. Disparate as these images might seem at first glance, both, like the depictions of...

 

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