Methodist Worship: Mediating the Wesleyan Liturgical Heritage

ISBN-13: 9781138588721 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 238 str.

R. Matthew Sigler

Opis

This book highlights three Methodist liturgists who have until now received precious little scholarly focus: Thomas O. Summers (1812-1882), Nolan B. Harmon (1892-1993), and James F. White (1932-2004). Addressing them in chronological order, it shows how each figure enacted liturgical reform and renewal by drawing from the liturgical textual tradition inherited directly from John Wesley’s Sunday Service of the Methodist in North America as well as the hymnody of Charles Wesley. Evaluating historic and emerging trends in Methodist liturgical praxis, this is a book that will be of great interest to scholars of Methodism, the History of Religion, Liturgical Studies and Theology.

Spis treści

Introduction: Form and Freedom; Distinction and Inculturation  Part I: Thomas Osmund Summers  1 The First American Methodist Liturgical Historian  2 Between the Extremes: Form and Freedom  Part II: Nolan Bailey Harmon  3 The Unlikely Liturgist  4 The Other Side of the Pendulum  Part III: James Floyd White  5 The Consummate Academic  6 Methodist Worship in a Pluralistic Age  Conclusion: Evaluating Emerging Forms

O autorze

Matthew Sigler is Assistant Professor of Wesleyan Studies and United Methodist Liaison at Seattle Pacific University, USA. He is particularly interested in how the faith practices of communities of the past can affect the church today and has published articles on these subjects in journals such as Worship and Liturgy.