Liturgical Theology: The Church as Worshiping Community (Biblia.com)

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Bad worship produces bad theology, and bad theology produces an unhealthy church. In Liturgical Theology, Simon Chan issues a call to evangelicals to develop a mature theology of the church—an ecclesiology that is grounded in the church’s identity as a worshiping community. Evangelicals, he argues, are confused about the meaning and purpose of the church in part because they have an inadequate...

Creation becomes the basis for understanding the nature and role of the church. The church is only a subspecies of creation and must discover the clue to its identity within the created order. The classic example is H. Richard Niebuhr, whose “Christ and culture” typology understands culture as the neutral, all-embracing reality (reality sui generis) within which Christians must configure their identity in terms of Christ against, Christ of or Christ for culture.2 Many modern ecclesiologies continue

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