Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion (55)
- Christianity (49)
- Biblical Studies (36)
- Liturgy and Worship (31)
- Practical Theology (24)
-
- History of Christianity (7)
- Catholic Studies (5)
- Education (4)
- Other Religion (4)
- Higher Education (3)
- Music (3)
- Christian Denominations and Sects (2)
- History (2)
- History of Religion (2)
- Islamic Studies (2)
- Musicology (2)
- Religious Education (2)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (2)
- Sociology (2)
- Anthropology (1)
- Architecture (1)
- Art and Design (1)
- Business (1)
- Comparative Methodologies and Theories (1)
- Cultural History (1)
- Eastern European Studies (1)
- Ethics in Religion (1)
- Ethnomusicology (1)
- Institution
-
- Concordia Seminary - Saint Louis (45)
- Pepperdine University (33)
- Dordt University (10)
- College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University (8)
- Asbury Theological Seminary (3)
-
- Wilfrid Laurier University (3)
- Abilene Christian University (2)
- Andrews University (2)
- Cedarville University (2)
- George Fox University (2)
- Association of Arab Universities (1)
- Brigham Young University (1)
- College of the Holy Cross (1)
- Disciples of Christ Historical Society (1)
- Grand Valley State University (1)
- Technological University Dublin (1)
- The University of Notre Dame Australia (1)
- Publication Year
- Publication
-
- Concordia Theological Monthly (43)
- Leaven (33)
- Obsculta (8)
- Pro Rege (7)
- Consensus (3)
-
- The Asbury Journal (3)
- The Voice (3)
- Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry (2)
- Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal (2)
- Musical Offerings (2)
- Andrews University Seminary Student Journal (1)
- Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship (1)
- International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage (1)
- Journal of Applied Christian Leadership (1)
- Journal of Discipliana (1)
- Journal of Global Catholicism (1)
- Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث (1)
- Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe (1)
- Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture (1)
- Pastoral Liturgy (1)
- Quaker Studies (1)
Articles 1 - 30 of 117
Full-Text Articles in Religion
Making Music In The House Of God: How Augustine Influenced Jean Calvin And Martin Luther's Opinions On Musical Worship, Emma N. Ross
Making Music In The House Of God: How Augustine Influenced Jean Calvin And Martin Luther's Opinions On Musical Worship, Emma N. Ross
Musical Offerings
Music for worship has been a divisive topic throughout church history. Augustine of Hippo influenced Jean Calvin and Martin Luther’s theology of music, although in different ways. Their opinions differed, but all three men cared deeply about applying a correct interpretation of the Bible to church music. Augustine’s opinion of music was that, when correctly understood, it had the capacity to glorify God. However, music could become a dangerous earthly pleasure if the senses were allowed to have control. Calvin argued that music must be used with care, not due to the problem of music, but rather the weakness and …
Review Of Keith Watkins. "Eucharist And Unity: A Theological Memoir." St. Louis, Mo: Christian Board Of Publication, 2023., D. Duane Cummins
Review Of Keith Watkins. "Eucharist And Unity: A Theological Memoir." St. Louis, Mo: Christian Board Of Publication, 2023., D. Duane Cummins
Journal of Discipliana
Watkins’ studied grasp of the eucharist (Lord’s Supper, Communion) shaped his thought of it as a fellowship with the living Christ, bringing renewal to the church—and in his writings, his teaching, and in his pastoral ministry, Watkins deemed the eucharist as the focal point of liturgy. He believed the eucharist to be the key to understanding the catholicity of the church—the center of the one faith—and the core around which unity could occur. The eucharist, determined Watkins in Eucharist and Unity, is the means of recalling the sacrifice of Christ, of recovering a fullness of the meaning of church.
The Impact Of The Outbreak Of Covid-19 On The Islamic Worships' Provisions, Sameer Mohammad Awawdi, Husam Al-Deen Afana
The Impact Of The Outbreak Of Covid-19 On The Islamic Worships' Provisions, Sameer Mohammad Awawdi, Husam Al-Deen Afana
Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث
This paper is titled (The impact of the outbreak of Covid-19 on the Islamic worships' provisions). The paper consisted of an introduction, two chapters and a conclusion. In the introduction, the researchers mentioned the research problem and questions, objectives and importance, previous studies, rationale, methodology, and the detailed plan. The first addressed issue was the impact of Covid19 on purity and prayers concerning the use of water by the corona infected person and mixing water with chemical sterilizers, the stoppage of prayers in mosques, and even in public places, and the dignified management of the Muslim dead in terms of …
Sunday Celebration In The Absence Of A Priest And Women's Role In Presiding, Kristyn Demers
Sunday Celebration In The Absence Of A Priest And Women's Role In Presiding, Kristyn Demers
Obsculta
This essay explores instances of Sunday celebrations in the absence of a priest, specifically within the rural context where the effects of the priesthood shortage are felt most strongly. Additionally, this paper examines the role that women play in the church, especially the rural church, and calls for the church to respond by creating more equitable roles for women within church leadership and ministry.
To Embody Christ's Image: Queer Presence In Liturgy, Maggie Nadalin
To Embody Christ's Image: Queer Presence In Liturgy, Maggie Nadalin
Obsculta
This paper examines how approaching liturgical issues from a Queer vantage-point in both theory and practice offers a fresh lens for not only understanding liturgy but recognizing the urgent need for Queer-influenced liturgical rites.
Different Forms Of Power In Worship Spaces, Patrick Russell
Different Forms Of Power In Worship Spaces, Patrick Russell
Obsculta
This project examines the importance of power in a worship space. In particular, looking at the historical structures of St. Paul's Cathedral in London and St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, this paper strives to lay out the presence of power inherent in places of worship. While other aspects could be used: power as a political structure, power of shared identity, power of scale, and power as a means of limits are given here for consideration.
Online Worship And The Autism Community, Stephen J. Bedard
Online Worship And The Autism Community, Stephen J. Bedard
Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many faith communities to move their services online. This may have been a pragmatic decision to adapt to health regulations but it also provided an accessible option for autistic worshipers to participate in their faith community. Although there are some challenges to online worship services, they remain an important option for autistic members of faith communities.
Liturgy & Life: How The Divine Service Connects With The Rest Of The Week, Benjamin Janssen
Liturgy & Life: How The Divine Service Connects With The Rest Of The Week, Benjamin Janssen
Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal
On vicarage, I was blessed to spend many hours with a faithful member named Ginger, who, alongside her husband Walter, runs and operates the congregation’s robust food and clothing distribution center. This center is completely run by volunteer efforts out of the undercroft of the church and successfully feeds and clothes 150 families a month. This work both serves the neighbor in need and brings the congregation into contact with many of those living in the immediate community. In short, it is a blessing to the congregation and the surrounding community. Therefore, at the end of each service day, I …
Learning The Liturgy With Mr. Miyagi: The Case For Liturgical Catechesis, Benjamin Leeper
Learning The Liturgy With Mr. Miyagi: The Case For Liturgical Catechesis, Benjamin Leeper
Grapho : Concordia Seminary Student Journal
Using the narrative of The Karate Kid as a guide, I will demonstrate that Christian formation is a matter of recontextualizing liturgical practices in the daily life of the believer, so that she knows when, where, and how to use the precogni¬tive spiritual habits formed by Word and Sacrament in Christian worship. This understanding challenges prevalent liturgical theology, which tends to assume an automatic connection—or worse, no connection at all— between worship and daily life, by highlighting the necessity of locating for believers the telos of the church’s rites and ceremonies in discipleship. Finally, I will provide concrete examples of …
Christ In You Is Your Hope Of Glory: Exploring Colossians In The Sunday Lectionary, Maggie Nadalin
Christ In You Is Your Hope Of Glory: Exploring Colossians In The Sunday Lectionary, Maggie Nadalin
Obsculta
This paper was submitted in the Fall of 2022 as an assignment for LTGY 421: The Liturgical Year and the Word of God, exploring the use of Paul's letter to the Colossians in the lectionary cycle.
Two Churches, One Vision: Sacred Architecture As A Reflection Of Benedictine Values And Liturgical Reform, Katheryn Wethli
Two Churches, One Vision: Sacred Architecture As A Reflection Of Benedictine Values And Liturgical Reform, Katheryn Wethli
Obsculta
This piece compares the architecture of the worshipping spaces of Saint Benedict's Monastery's Sacred Heart Chapel and Saint John's Abbey Church; presenting how the worshiping spaces uplift their monastic communities’ Benedictine values and demonstrate their monastic call towards evangelizing the Gospel in the modern world, highlighting the liturgical reforms of the mid-20th century.
Incarnate Spirits: The Embodied Roots Of Worship, Henry O. Widdicombe
Incarnate Spirits: The Embodied Roots Of Worship, Henry O. Widdicombe
Obsculta
Spirituality is “how the Spirit of Jesus enables Christians to grow into fullness with God in this life and in particular historical circumstances.” The role of the community is definitive in shaping the spirituality of an individual and the interior dynamism of spirit is contextualized by incarnate experience. This piece employs the thought of Bernard Lonergan, SJ bolstered with the work of two Lonergan scholars, Ian Bell and Timothy Brunk, on the notion of a “worshipful” pattern of experience.
The Devotional Frame: A Film Theological And Cultural Critical Reflection On The Experience Of Online Worship, Sherry Coman
The Devotional Frame: A Film Theological And Cultural Critical Reflection On The Experience Of Online Worship, Sherry Coman
Consensus
No abstract provided.
The Eucharist Online: Learning From Communications Theory, David Harrison
The Eucharist Online: Learning From Communications Theory, David Harrison
Consensus
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Worship With Teenagers: Adolescent Spirituality And Congregational Practice, Chelsea Flow Stirman
Book Review: Worship With Teenagers: Adolescent Spirituality And Congregational Practice, Chelsea Flow Stirman
Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry
Worship with Teenagers: Adolescent Spirituality and Congregational Practice, by Eric Mathis. Baker Academic, 2022. 243 pages, $17.00.
Blossoming With Books: Syriac Manuscripts From The Egyptian Desert
Blossoming With Books: Syriac Manuscripts From The Egyptian Desert
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
The birthplace and spiritual heart of Christian monasticism is the Nitrian Desert of Egypt and the long, shallow valley of Scetis (Wadi el-Natrun). It was to here, from the fourth century onwards, that Macarius the Great and other of the sainted desert fathers retreated from the world, devoting their lives to worship and prayer. While some monks chose to live in isolation as hermits, many others banded together to establish the first monasteries, building churches for worship and libraries for study.
A Reader’S Guide To Worship And Liturgical Studies, David Kneip
A Reader’S Guide To Worship And Liturgical Studies, David Kneip
Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry
The history of writing about worship in the Christian tradition is almost as old as the tradition itself, and it shows no sign of abating anytime soon. As a result, readers may find it difficult to know where to begin reading, and how to evaluate books that are popular or otherwise available to them. This annotated bibliography aims to assist readers in navigating the huge field of Christian publishing in worship studies, both by offering specific book recommendations and by demonstrating some of the different sub-categories that one might examine in attempting to choose what to read or study. The …
The Church As Polis, Amy Wen
The Church As Polis, Amy Wen
Obsculta
This paper aims to name a growing rift between belief and ethic in contemporary American society. It suggests the concept of liturgy as ‘primary theology’ and a liturgical anthropology as the solution to this rift. The paper picks up on voices from Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox traditions to highlight an ecumenical approach in retrieving a Christian worshiping anthropology.
At Worship With Dag Hammarskjöld., Tom Ryan Sm
Recording Studio Helps Equip Worship Arts Majors, Lydia Marcus
Recording Studio Helps Equip Worship Arts Majors, Lydia Marcus
The Voice
No abstract provided.
Shopping For Salvation: A Comparative Appraisal Of The Place Of Worship And Marketplace In South Africa, Rufus Olufemi Adebayo
Shopping For Salvation: A Comparative Appraisal Of The Place Of Worship And Marketplace In South Africa, Rufus Olufemi Adebayo
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
Recently South Africa has been experiencing accelerated challenges on a spiritual level relating to ‘place of worship’ and spiritual pilgrimage. This has been one of the biggest challenges facing religious activities in South Africa. Arising from that, this paper examines possible connections between salvation seekers and consumers (in the marketplace). To this end, this paper seeks to understand the assertion of ‘distance to travel not being a limitation in the spiritual realm’ (Adeboye, 2014), where some Christians claim that at a certain place there is a blessing waiting for them and that they cannot find that blessing at any other …
Hagia Sophia: Holy Wisdom Is Feminine Wisdom, Zilka Spahić-Šiljak
Hagia Sophia: Holy Wisdom Is Feminine Wisdom, Zilka Spahić-Šiljak
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
Hagia Sophia: could it be a mosque on Fridays, a synagogue on Saturdays, a church on Sundays, and a museum during the week?
Minor Letnica: (Re)Locating The Tradition Of Shared Worship In North Macedonia, Ksenia Trofimova
Minor Letnica: (Re)Locating The Tradition Of Shared Worship In North Macedonia, Ksenia Trofimova
Journal of Global Catholicism
This paper addresses trajectories of historical and devotional continuity of the annual pilgrimage to a Marian shrine. It analyzes the ways in which traditional worship of the Catholic Church in Letnica (Kosovo)—a major regional sanctuary of the former Yugoslavia—is relocated and replicated in a small chapel of St. Joseph in Skopje (North Macedonia). Both sites have been for a long period of time institutionally connected and shared by followers of different religious traditions (Catholic and Orthodox devotees, and especially by Muslims). Drawing upon fieldwork carried out in Macedonia and Serbia between 2014-2019, I focus on the processes of social construction …
Eucharist As Sacrifice: A Study Into The Development Of The Eucharist As A Sacrifice Of The Believer In The First And Second Centuries, David Williams
Eucharist As Sacrifice: A Study Into The Development Of The Eucharist As A Sacrifice Of The Believer In The First And Second Centuries, David Williams
Andrews University Seminary Student Journal
The sacrifice of the believer at the Eucharist can nowhere be found in the Adventist understanding of the Lord’s Supper. However, Adventists may find value in reexamining the early church’s teachings on sacrifice. While the early church deviated from Scripture in its primary teachings on the Eucharist, they maintained the scriptural notion of the spiritual sacrifice of the worshiper— something Adventists would do well to practice. This article examines the liturgical orders and teachings of the apostolic fathers, apologists, and early liturgical orders of the first and second centuries. The author considers four major issues relating to the Eucharist as …
Gen Z Faith Formation And Campus Ministries, Sarah Moss
Gen Z Faith Formation And Campus Ministries, Sarah Moss
The Voice
No abstract provided.
Who Shall Be Welcome In God’S Tent: Disrupting The Liturgical Legacies Of White Supremacy To Promote The Flourishing Of The Body Of Christ, Andrew Remick
Obsculta
No abstract provided.
Biblical Models For Gender Language In Worship, Jeff Miller
Biblical Models For Gender Language In Worship, Jeff Miller
Leaven
No abstract provided.
Worship Arts Program Builds New Recording Studio, Shelbi Gesch
Worship Arts Program Builds New Recording Studio, Shelbi Gesch
The Voice
No abstract provided.
A Trinity Of Love: The Formation Of Christian Community In Worship, Jeffrey Russell Crawford
A Trinity Of Love: The Formation Of Christian Community In Worship, Jeffrey Russell Crawford
Journal of Applied Christian Leadership
Dissertation Notice:
Full Text of the Thesis available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
This study employs narrative research methodology to explore Trinity Community Presbyterian Church’s understanding of growing in love together as the Body of Christ in worship. The project assessed community formation in worship and used “Love Song for a Savior” by the band Jars of clay as its organizing principle.
Quaker Beliefs: Diverse Yet Distinctive, Rosamund Bourke
Quaker Beliefs: Diverse Yet Distinctive, Rosamund Bourke
Quaker Studies
The aim of the research was to obtain the views of Quakers about their beliefs. 166 members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) responded to a questionnaire about Quaker faith and practice. The respondents largely agreed with traditional Quaker beliefs. As might be expected from previous studies, a diversity of views was found and it was not possible to calculate an 'index of Quakerism'. Eighty percent were over the age of 50. Their attitudes to religion were probably formed before the changes in cultural values of the latter half of the twentieth century.