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In The God We Worship Nicholas Wolterstorff takes a ground-up approach to liturgical theology, examining the oft-hidden implications of traditional elements of liturgy. Given that “no liturgy has ever been composed from scratch,” Wolterstorff argues that the assumptions taken into worship are key to perceiving the real depths of historical Christianity’s understanding of God. Across the...

on the Christian liturgy.4 The Christian liturgy, he says, is the recapitulation of the history of salvation, it is the epiphany of the church, and it is the end and future of the world. I interpret what von Allmen has in mind when he describes the liturgy as the epiphany of the church as essentially the same as what Schmemann had in mind when he described the liturgy as the actualization of the church. About liturgy as the epiphany of the church von Allmen says this: “by its worship the Church becomes
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