Perspectives on Christian Worship
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Perspectives

ON

Christian

Worship

Ligon Duncan

Dan kimbaLL

michaeL Lawrence & mark Dever

timothy QuiLL

Dan wiLt

edited by

J. MATTHEW PINSON

nashville, tennessee

Copyright © 2009

by J. Matthew Pinson

All rights reserved

ISBN: 987-0-8054-4099-2

Published by Broadman & Holman Publishers

Nashville, Tennessee

Dewey Decimal Classification: 264

Subject Heading: WORSHIP \ PUBLIC WORSHIP

Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are taken from the Holman Christian Standard Bible¨ Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission.

Other versions are identified as follows:

ESV, The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

NIV, the Holy Bible, New International Version, copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society.

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1 — Liturgical Worship

Chapter 2 — Responses to Timothy C. J. Quill

Chapter 3 — Traditional Evangelical Worship

Chapter 4 — Responses to Ligon Duncan

Chapter 5 — Contemporary Worship

Chapter 6 — Responses to Dan Wilt

Chapter 7 — Blended Worship

Chapter 8 — Responses to Michael Lawrence and Mark Dever

Chapter 9 — Emerging Worship

Chapter 10 — Responses to Dan Kimball

Author Index

Subject Index

Scripture Index

Contributors

Mark Dever serves as the senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. A Duke graduate, Dr. Dever earned his M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, a Th.M. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Ecclesiastical History from Cambridge University. He is the president of 9Marks and has taught at a number of seminaries. He and his wife Connie live and minister on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

J. Ligon Duncan III received his M.Div. from Covenant Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh. He is an adjunct professor of theology at Reformed Theological Seminary and senior minister of First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Mississippi. In 2004 he was elected the moderator of the General Assembly of the PCA, the youngest to hold that position in the denomination’s history. He serves as president of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals and chairman of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. Ligon and his wife Anne have two children.

Dan Kimball oversees the Sunday worship gatherings and teaching at Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, California. He holds a graduate certificate in Bible from Multnomah Biblical Seminary and is pursuing a D.Min. at George Fox Evangelical Seminary, where he also serves as adjunct faculty mentor. Dan and his wife Becky have two daughters.

Michael Lawrence serves as an associate pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist Church. He previously served on the staff of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at UNC-CH and at Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Concord, Massachusetts. He holds the M.Div. degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological ...

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About Perspectives on Christian Worship

Perspectives on Christian Worship presents in counterpoint form five basic common beliefs on Christian worship that have developed over the course of church history with a view toward determining which is most faithful to Scripture. Each chapter is written by a prominent person within each tradition, and each writer has the opportunity to respond to each differing view.

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