Don E. Saliers Additional Author mixed material bibliography Nasville Abingdon Press 1994 monographic en English

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In Worship As Theology. Don Saliers discusses how worship is both theological (God-centered) and anthropological (embodied and embedded in specific human and cultural contexts). He illuminates worship as a theology "prayed, sung, and enacted." At the same time, by focusing upon specific dimensions of liturgical action such as praising, thanking, invoking, confessing, proclaiming, interceding, and blessing, he addresses the differences between the liturgical/sacramental and the "free-church"/evangelical church traditions. Underlying Saliers' approach is his basic conviction that Christian liturgy is an eschatological art. Theological integrity in worship, he asserts, calls for a permanent tension in the forms and patterns which reflect the "already" and the "not yet" of Christian life in the world for the sake of the world. Worship As Theology, therefore, begins and ends with the eschatology of the divine promise, that the church's cry is still "Come, Lord Jesus!" and that God's will be done on earth "as in heaven." Here is a text that iuegrates liturgy and life experience, doing and being, prayer and ethics, and theology and practice into a contemporary spiritual reader. Don Saliers has written a clearly focused liturgical study that is also a remarkably accessible spiritual reader. -Bishop Rueben P. Job Saliers has gathered in a rich harvest of reflection on what the North American churches have experienced in the last three decades of liturgical renewal. To this bountiful harvest he has added many significant original insights. He shows where we have been and where we have yet to explore -James F. White, University of Notre Dame This book is the culmination of Don Saliers' life-long love for and commitment to the study of Christian worship. It is an eloquent testimonial to the power of worship to form Christians today. The book is also a testimonial to the leadership of Dr. Saliers in contemporary worship renewal -William H. Willimon, Duke University We have needed this book, te lyrically elegant and lucidly accessible writing, Don Saliers holds together matters which we too often find divided: worship and ethics, theology and aesthetics. epistemology and exchotology, words and enacted vymbols, liturgical canons and human cultures, the beauty of the world and its pain, the divine presence and the divine absence. passionate human experience and the creative order of the mercy of God and he engagingly real as Gordon W. Lathrop, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia Never before have I read a book about the worship of the church which is 3D aware of all ofdifer the storm as well as the calm, the violence as well as the embrace, the stumble as well at the does not deny lament, Liturgics 264.0010687146933 Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 264.001 Sal w E95020049 Non Fiction 264.001 Sal w Worship_as_theology.jpg 66090 2014-12-17 15:04:21 2026-03-24 17:35:05 machine generated