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Long, Thomas. Beyond the Worship Wars: Building Vital and Faithful Worship Dawn, Marva. Reaching Out without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for This Urgent Time Dawn, Marva.
How Shall We Worship:
Biblical Guidelines for the Worship Wars Using
Psalm 96 as a bibilical basis, this short book (170 pages) examines why churches
have discussion about worship styles and where such discussion should focus. She
helps the reader understand that worship should focus on God and his works.
Contains discussion questions. Published
by Tyndale, 2003.
Braun, Wm and Victor Prange,
ed. Not unto Us:
A Celebration of the Ministry of Kurt J. Eggert This
collection of essays includes a biography of Kurt Eggert, an overview of the
development of Christian Worship: a Lutheran Hymnal, and an interesting
essay by Prof. Tiefel on the development of worship views in the WELS, among
other writings. 266 pages.
Published by NPH, 2001.
Brunner, Peter.
Worship in the Name of Jesus Classic
book on the theology of Christian worship.
Translated from the German. 375
pages. Published by CPH, 1968.
Schalk, Carl.
First Person Singular: Reflections
on Worship, Liturgy, and Children Carl
Schalk, the greatest Lutheran composer of our times, offers his observations on
worship in this series of short articles. This
is an interesting read on some of the worship issues we all face. 95 pages. Published
by MorningStar, 1998.
Schalk, Carl.
Music in Early Lutheranism: Shaping
the Tradition (1524-1672)
An in-depth look at several
Lutheran church musicians during the “Age of Orthodoxy.”
Provides some historical background and insight into the Lutherans in the
past have viewed worship. 206
pages. Published by Concordia
Academic Press, 2001.
White, James F.
Introduction to Christian Worship
White, James F.
A Brief History of Christian Worship
Precht, Fred, ed.
Lutheran Worship: History
and Practice Similar
to Christian Worship: Manual, only more extensive.
Variety of essayists. 639
pages. Published by CPH, 1993.
Senn, Frank C.
Christian Liturgy: Catholic
and Evangelical Comprehensive
history of the Christian liturgy written by an ELCA pastor who has also taught
liturgics. Published by Augsburg
Fortress, 1997.
Grime, Paul and Dean
Nadasdy, ed. Liturgical
Preaching: Contemporary Essays. Collection
of essays on preaching by various LCMS writers..
256 pages. Published by CPH, 2001.
Schalk, Carl.
Luther on Music: Paradigms
of Praise. This
little booklet gives an overview of Luther’s experience and teaching about
music, especially as it is used in the church.
Schalk takes Luther’s principles for worship and applies them as a
paradigm for our Lutheran worship today. 70
pages. Published by CPH, 1988.
Maschke, Timothy.
Gathered Guests. A
textbook on worship written for lay people by a professor at Concordia, Mequon. Gives an overview of the history of Christian worship, as
well as explanations of the Lutheran liturgy, Church Year, clergy vestments,
church architecture, and use of music, art and symbolism. 675 pages. Published
by CPH, 2003.
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