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Theological Foundations of Worship: Biblical, Systematic, and Practical Perspectives is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume brings together an ecumenical team of scholars to present key theological concepts related to worship to help readers articulate their own theology of worship. Contributors explore the history of theology’s impact on worship practices across the Christian tradition, highlighting themes such as creation, pneumatology, sanctification, and mission. The book includes introductions by N....

Blessed be He that has mercy on all! The Trinity that is unsearchable has laid up treasures in baptism. Descend, ye poor, to its fountain! and be enriched from it, ye needy! Blessed be He that has mercy on all!29 By at least the third century the church gave ritual expression to being “christed” through immersion in water and anointing with oil (the etymological and symbolic link to Christos). This rebirth was a new beginning, a turning away from what was, from practices and settings that stood between
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