Bøger af Lester Ruth

"The most comprehensive account to date of the liturgical forms that reshaped the landscape of Christian worship"Two worship experts provide the first comprehensive history of Contemporary Praise & Worship, offering insight into where this phenomenon began and how it reshaped the church."The story of Contemporary Praise & Worship is fascinating and complex, and Ruth and Lim follow its twists and turns with historical precision, theological sophistication, and wondrous clarity. This book is a remarkable achievement. It will remain the standard work of reference on evangelical and Pentecostal worship for years to come."--Melanie C. Ross, Yale Divinity School"What a remarkably rich and thought-provoking account of the people and the convictions that have directly or indirectly shaped the worship practices of millions of Christians in several quite different traditions. Those who remember the people or events described here may well be astonished to see the contours of the larger story in which they played a part. This is a book that will help us slow down and listen attentively, a crucial task for anyone who is called to discern the nature of vital, faithful worship practices in the years to come, including Christians from traditions that seem at first not to be influenced by the worlds described here."--John Witvliet, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, Calvin University"I have had the wonderful privilege of personally experiencing and participating in the birth of Contemporary Praise & Worship. My heart wept as I read Ruth and Lim's masterful and comprehensive capture of our worship 'heritage.' But, as precious as our heritage is, this book is much more than a historical narration of praise and worship. The authors identify significant principles and pitfalls of contemporary worship expression. This book needs to be in every church leader's library and is a must-read for everyone who desires to be grounded in our heritage of praise and worship!"--Howard Rachinski, founder, Christian Copyright Licensing International, Inc."A landmark volume. With remarkable breadth and analytical depth, this book provides the most comprehensive account to date of the liturgical forms that reshaped the landscape of Christian worship during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book will become required reading for courses in liturgy and worship, church history, and church music."--Monique M. Ingalls, Center for Christian Music Studies, Baylor University

Worship Resources Edition 9781426709975 The edition contains the nonmusical prayers and acts of worship only. Cover includes the United Methodist Cross & Flame emblem. Worship & Song is a distinctive collection of 190 songs comprising a broad variety of genres collected from all over the globe, including new hymns in traditional style, plus older traditional hymns no longer found in modern hymnals, contemporary songs, global songs (World Music, including Taizé and Iona), and USA ethnic (Spirituals, Black Gospel, Asian, and more).

Description:Accompanying the Journey is a practical handbook designed to help sponsors in United Methodist congregations (and congregations in other denominations) develop a ""hands on"" approach to guiding individuals who seek initiation into the Christian faith through baptism. Using the metaphor of ""presentation,"" the book outlines crucial ways in which sponsors embody the congregation''s welcome--both in and outside worship services--as they accompany adult initiates to the waters of baptism. The book also provides extensive guidance for sponsoring children for baptism and for sponsoring adults returning to the baptismal covenant.This bookΓÇó provides a helpful overview of the process of Christian initiationΓÇó outlines in detail the responsibilities of sponsors in the worship services connected with the initiation processΓÇó helps sponsors understand their relationships with the congregation and with others who lead the work of making disciplesΓÇó provides church leaders with guidelines for selecting, forming, and nurturing sponsors, including a discussion of the place of discernment in the processΓÇó presents a brief overview of the role and historical context of sponsors in the Christian tradition and in MethodismΓÇó includes an appendix containing ""An Order for Commissioning Sponsors""About the Contributor(s):Lester Ruth (PhD, University of Notre Dame) writes with the goal of appropriating worship history for renewal today, including his latest book on fourth-century Jerusalem, Walking Where Jesus Walked. This appropriation has been his interest since his service as a United Methodist minister in Texas. Currently he is Research Professor of Christian Worship at Duke Divinity School. He also teaches in the Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies.

Presents primary source material from the writings of early American Methodists (ca. 1770-1820), illustrating their lives and spirituality. Writings are from women and men, blacks and whites. Setting in context each of the readings, Ruth includes materials--sermon outlines, journal and diary entries, excerpts from correspondence, hymnody and poetry, theological reflections, and contemporaneous historical descriptions--from Francis Asbury, Thomas Coke, Peter Cartwright and others.

The Church at Worship is a series of documentary case studies of specific worshiping communities from around the world and throughout Christian history. This inaugural volume, Walking Where Jesus Walked, uses vivid descriptions of Jerusalem, its history, its people, and its worship practices to set the stage for a rich selection of primary church documents, presenting readers with a vibrant snapshot of the church at Jerusalem in the fourth century.Some of the primary materials included here: Select art, artifacts, and architectural drawings Egeria's Diary: A Pilgrim's Observations of Jerusalem at Worship The lectionary and communion prayer likely used in Jerusalem The Liturgy of St. James, historically associated with Jerusalem Excerpts from the sermons of Cyril, bishop of Jerusalem