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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798398703321

Autore

Webster John E.

Titolo

Secularizing the sacred : the demise of liturgical wholeness : a case study of liturgical minimisation in the Presbyterian Church of Australia / / John E. Webster and Ronald S. Laura

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-7618-6762-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Disciplina

285.0994

Soggetti

Presbyterian Church - Australia - History

Theology - Study and teaching

Australia Church history Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 Socio-Political Patterns in Early Presbyterianism in New South Wales; 2 Defining the Practice of Worship in the Presbyterian Church; 3 The Climax of Calvinist Liturgical Development in New South Wales; 4 A Brief History of the Theological Aetiology of Liturgical Minimization; 5 Minimization since 1977 in the Presbyterian Church of Australia; 6 Towards an Epistemology of Worship; 7 Towards a Reconstruction of Theological Education; Conclusion; Bibliography; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Western culture has come to secularize the sacred, while at the same time sacralizing the secular. This book shows the debilitating effects that this paradox has had on the foundations of Christian worship with special reference to the changing worship patterns the Presbyterian Church in Australia.