Review - In Defense of Christian Ritual
Center For Worship Leadership Blogcast
English - June 22, 2023 18:02 - 15 minutes - 21 MBChristianity Religion & Spirituality Education church liturgy practice worship liturgist serviceorder theology theologyofworship Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
By Rev. Steve Zank. In his book In Defense of Christian Ritual: The Case for a Biblical Pattern of Worship, David Andersen made two significant arguments. First, he argued that worship practices deeply and stubbornly form the beliefs and culture of the church — both institutionally and individually. As a specialist in Christian apologetics, Andersen made this argument with the same methods he used to defend the historical resurrection of Jesus, namely, the collective insights of anthropology, psychology, neurology, epistemology and the social sciences...