American Methodist Worship

by Karen B. Westerfield Tucker

Overview

"American Methodist Worship is the most comprehensive history of worship among John Wesley's various American spiritual descendents that has ever been written. It will be a foundational book for anyone who wishes to understand how American Methodists have worshipped."-Sacramental Life "This groundbreaking study will help to reshape the way that we think about early American Methodist worship and how it connects to more recent trends."-- The Journal of Religion "Karen Westerfield Tucker's exhaustive examination of the history of American Methodist worship may indeed launch a new genre in liturgical historiography: denominational liturgical histories. The genius of this contribution is its comprehensiveness in examining for the first time the worship life of an American ecclesiological tradition."--Doxology

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190454203
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/27/2011
Series:	Religion in America
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Professor of Worship at Boston University. Author of The Sunday Service of the Methodists: Twentieth-century Worship in Worldwide Methodism (Abingdon/Kingswood, 1996) and co-editor with Geoffrey Wainwright of The Oxford History of Christian Worship (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Table of Contents

Introduction The Lord's Day: The Shape of Worship The Lord's Day: Ordinary and Propers The Great Festivals of the Methodists The Rites of Christian Initiation The Lord's Supper The Music of Methodist Worship The Solemnization of Christian Marriage Methodist Funerals Devotion and Discipleship A House for Worship Roles in Public Worship American Methodist Worship: Memory and Modernization Notes Index