Engaging Westminster Calvinism: The Composition of Redemption's Song
This collection of writings contains articles and book reviews that are not readily accessible to most readers. Many of them are written for a wider audience of informed lay students of Scripture, as well as seminarians. They have been brought together here in a fresh way with other new writings. As a result, this study is somewhat unique, drawing upon the author's career in theology and church music. Over the course of four decades of scholarly research and writing Mark Karlberg has also been engaged in the music ministry of the church, serving as organist and choir director. Chief influences in his study and practice of music in the church have been Robert Elmore and Gerre Hancock, leading organists, choral masters, and composers of our generation. In the course of their stellar careers Elmore and Hancock have served in different ecclesiastical settings--Moravian, Presbyterian, Southern Baptist, and Anglican. What they both share in common is their exceptional skill in the art of improvisation. Part of their accompaniment was "off the written musical score," resulting in service-playing that was creative and engaging. In the spirit of their artistic expression we offer this collection of writings bearing as its theme the great Song of Redemption, composed by "the singing Christ" (Heb 2:12).
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Engaging Westminster Calvinism: The Composition of Redemption's Song
This collection of writings contains articles and book reviews that are not readily accessible to most readers. Many of them are written for a wider audience of informed lay students of Scripture, as well as seminarians. They have been brought together here in a fresh way with other new writings. As a result, this study is somewhat unique, drawing upon the author's career in theology and church music. Over the course of four decades of scholarly research and writing Mark Karlberg has also been engaged in the music ministry of the church, serving as organist and choir director. Chief influences in his study and practice of music in the church have been Robert Elmore and Gerre Hancock, leading organists, choral masters, and composers of our generation. In the course of their stellar careers Elmore and Hancock have served in different ecclesiastical settings--Moravian, Presbyterian, Southern Baptist, and Anglican. What they both share in common is their exceptional skill in the art of improvisation. Part of their accompaniment was "off the written musical score," resulting in service-playing that was creative and engaging. In the spirit of their artistic expression we offer this collection of writings bearing as its theme the great Song of Redemption, composed by "the singing Christ" (Heb 2:12).
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Engaging Westminster Calvinism: The Composition of Redemption's Song

Engaging Westminster Calvinism: The Composition of Redemption's Song

by Mark W. Karlberg
Engaging Westminster Calvinism: The Composition of Redemption's Song

Engaging Westminster Calvinism: The Composition of Redemption's Song

by Mark W. Karlberg

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This collection of writings contains articles and book reviews that are not readily accessible to most readers. Many of them are written for a wider audience of informed lay students of Scripture, as well as seminarians. They have been brought together here in a fresh way with other new writings. As a result, this study is somewhat unique, drawing upon the author's career in theology and church music. Over the course of four decades of scholarly research and writing Mark Karlberg has also been engaged in the music ministry of the church, serving as organist and choir director. Chief influences in his study and practice of music in the church have been Robert Elmore and Gerre Hancock, leading organists, choral masters, and composers of our generation. In the course of their stellar careers Elmore and Hancock have served in different ecclesiastical settings--Moravian, Presbyterian, Southern Baptist, and Anglican. What they both share in common is their exceptional skill in the art of improvisation. Part of their accompaniment was "off the written musical score," resulting in service-playing that was creative and engaging. In the spirit of their artistic expression we offer this collection of writings bearing as its theme the great Song of Redemption, composed by "the singing Christ" (Heb 2:12).

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781621896647
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 04/26/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 188
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Mark W. Karlberg obtained three theological degrees from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, including a doctorate in Reformation/Post-Reformation studies. He is the author of the trilogy: Covenant Theology in Reformed Perspective: Collected Essays and Book Reviews in Historical, Biblical, and Systematic Theology (2000); Gospel Grace: The Modern-Day Controversy (2003); and Federalism and the Westminster Tradition: Reformed Orthodoxy at the Crossroads (2006), all published by Wipf and Stock.
Dr. Karlberg has a Th.D. from Westminster Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. He is the author of 'Gospel Grace,' also published by Wipf&Stock, 2003.

Table of Contents

Author's Foreword xi

Prelude: On a Redemptive Theme 1

Section 1 The Song of Redemption: Justification by Grace Through Faith 9

1 Sola Gratia: The Signature of the Reformation 11

Part 1 Today's Church: Standing or Falling?

Part 2 Judgment According to Works: The Crux of Today's Dispute

2 Conflating Faith and Works in Final Judgment/Justification: The Teaching of New School Westminster 21

Reviews: Paul A. Rainbow, The Way of Salvation: The Role of Christian Obedience in Justification, and Richard B. Gaffin Jr., "By Faith, Not by Sight": Paul and the Order of Salvation 135

Brian Vickers, Jesus' Blood and Righteousness: Paul's Theology of Imputation 145

G. L. W. Johnson and G. P. Waters, eds., By Faith Alone: Answering the Challenges to the Doctrine of Justification 152

Section 2 Sweet Canaan: Covenant Life in Anticipation of the End of the Age 59

3 Recovering the Mosaic Covenant as Law and Gospel: J. Mark Beach, John H. Sailhamer, and Jason C. Meyer as Representative Expositors 61

4 How Should Moses Be Read?: A Debate in Contemporary Reformed Theology 81

Reviews: Bryan D. Estelle, J. V. Fesko, and David VanDrunen, eds., The Law Is Not of Faith: Essays on Works and Grace in the Mosaic Covenant 87

Richard C. Gamble, The Whole Counsel of God, vol. 1, Cod's Mighty Acts in the Old Testament 94

Section 3 The Music of Heaven: Worship in Spirit and Truth 97

5 The Glory of God: Archetypal and Ectypal 99

Part 1 The Theophanic Glory

Part 2 The Image of God

6 The Distinctiveness of Reformed Worship 111

7 Music in Worship: A Historical Sketch and Theological Appraisal 125

8 Patriotic Music in Worship 133

9 A Brief Interpretive History of Music in the Service of the Church 137

10 Theological Reflections on Church Music, Arts, and Architecture 149

Excursus: Presbyterian Versus Anglican Practice: Two Views on Church Music

Review: John R. Muether, Cornelius Van Til: Reformed Apologist and Churchman 155

Postlude: Theme and Recapitulation 153

Appendix 1 Summary Statement of the Reformed Faith 163

Appendix 2 Statement on Baptism (from Chapter 6) 165

Author Bibliography 167

General Bibliography 171

Name Index 175

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