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Worship in the Early Church
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
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Publisher's Summary
While many histories of Christian worship exist, this project undertakes a task both more focused and more urgent. Rather than survey the whole history of the Christian church, it focuses on the formative period between the first and fifth centuries CE, when so many of the understandings and patterns of Christian worship came to be. And rather than include such developments as the monastic hours of prayer and the history of ordination, the authors deal primarily with those aspects of worship that recur on a weekly or regular basis: preaching, Eucharist, and baptism.
The book divides its subject into three periods. It begins with the emerging worship of the New Testament era. It moves to the second and third centuries, when the church's main tasks of establishing its identity in relation to its Jewish roots and making its way in a hostile Roman environment showed up in its theology and practice of worship. And it concludes with the fourth and fifth centuries, when introducing the increasing numbers of converts after Constantine to Christian faith became one of the highest priorities of the church's worship. This resource will serve as a valuable guide to the historical developments that brought about Christian worship as we know it today.
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- Tom M.
- 09-04-2024
Mispronunciation makes it unlistenable
The reader pronounces "worship" as "warship". This makes me think of the apostles speeding around the Mediterranean in a trireme, and makes it impossible to pay attention to the actual content. I tried really hard to ignore it and focus on the content, but I just couldn't do it.
From what I did gather of the content, this book seems to be much more scholarly in nature and less devotional in nature, which isn't what I was expecting. I was also expecting a specific analysis of the practice of singing and making melody (i.e. what did Ephesians 5:19 look like in the early church), in line with the current use of the word worship, rather than a wider analysis of communal Christian practices and traditions, which reflects what I understand to be an antiquated meaning of worship.
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