Duty and Delight: Baptist Worship and Identity
This essay takes Alexander Schmemann's liturgical theology as a guide and approaches questions of Baptist identity by examining Baptist worship. Worship is revelatory of the convictions at the heart of a faith community. The focus is chiefly upon British Baptist life. There is first a broad ske...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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Review and expositor
Year: 2003, Volume: 100, Issue: 3, Pages: 329-349 |
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| Summary: | This essay takes Alexander Schmemann's liturgical theology as a guide and approaches questions of Baptist identity by examining Baptist worship. Worship is revelatory of the convictions at the heart of a faith community. The focus is chiefly upon British Baptist life. There is first a broad sketch of the patterns of Baptist worship from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Next, the principal characteristics of Baptist worship are delineated: attention to Scripture; devotion; community; and eschatology. In light of these, the “presiding conviction” of Baptist worship and life, “Jesus Christ is Lord,” is articulated and applied to worship. The essay concludes with a definition of worship drawn from the cumulative Baptist witness. |
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| ISSN: | 2052-9449 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review and expositor
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/003463730310000303 |