Worship, Community and the Triune God of Grace

Author: James B. Torrance
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830818952
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Refuting the notion that the doctrine of the Trinity may be indispensable for the creed but remote from life and worship, James B. Torrance points us to the indispensable "who" of worship--the triune God of grace. He demonstrates why trinitarian theology is the very essence of Christian confession.

Worship, Community and the Triune God of Grace

Author: James B Torrance
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781853647024
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Here is a book that sets our worship, communion, and language of God back on track. In a day when refinement of method and quality of experience are the guiding lights for many Christians, James Torrance points us to the triune God of grace.

Rhythms of Grace

Author: Mike Cosper
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433533456
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Is it singing? A church service? All of life? Helping Christians think more theologically about the nature of true worship, Rhythms of Grace shows how the gospel is all about worship and worship is all about the gospel. Mike Cosper ultimately answers the question: What is worship?

Trinity and Transformation

Author: Todd Speidell
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 149828938X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
The triune God of grace, James B. Torrance tirelessly insisted, is the true agent to transform worship, mission, and society. Unfortunately, the church often lapses into moralism and legalism, or exhortations and condemnations, rather than witnessing to the sole-sufficient grace of God in Christ. When we neglect the Trinity, a de facto unitarianism throws the church back onto its own existence and resources. In Christ, however, the church participates through the Spirit in union with Christ's communion with the Father. By so doing, it also participates in Christ's mission to the world. The essays of this volume articulate and extend Torrance's evangelical theology, which draws attention away from ourselves and toward the triune God who is for us and for the world.

Worship and the Reality of God

Author: John Jefferson Davis
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830868208
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
Professor John Jefferson Davis shows what's really needed for the renewal of worship in our evangelical churches. Moving far beyond the "worship wars" Davis provides profound theological analysis and fresh recommendations to help us recognize obstacles to worship and learn to rightly respond to the glory and gracious real presence of God among us in our worship.

A Passion for Christ

Author: Thomas Forsyth Torrance
Publisher: P L C Publications
ISBN: 9780965260244
Category : Pastoral theology
Languages : en
Pages : 151

Book Description

Engaging with God

Author: David G. Peterson
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830898859
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Through careful exegesis in both Old and New Testaments, David Peterson unveils the total life-orientation of worship that is found in Scripture. Rather than determining for ourselves how we should worship, we, his people, are called to engage with God on the terms he proposes and in the way he alone makes possible.

Trinitarian Doxology

Author: Kevin J. Navarro
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725251000
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 205

Book Description
Most approaches to liturgical theology are anthropocentric: the study of liturgy is primarily focused on what we, the worshipers, do. Thomas F. Torrance and James B. Torrance offer a trinitarian and christocentric approach. This informs not only the "why" of worship and not simply the "what" or "how" of worship, but centers on the One whom we worship. Most significantly, it fully recognizes the key role of the humanity of Christ as the ascended High Priest who alone offers the perfect worship and through whom alone we are enabled by the Spirit to worship God.

Discover the Mystery of Faith

Author: Glenn Packiam
Publisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 1434707024
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
What if the way we worship isn't just an expression of our faith, but is what shapes our faith? The Church has believed this about the way we worship and pray together for centuries: The way we worship becomes the way we believe. But if this is true, it’s time to take a closer look at what we say and sing and do each week. Drawing from his own discovery of ancient worship practices, Glenn Packiam helps us understand why the Church made creedal proclamations and Psalm-praying a regular part of their worship. He shares about why the Eucharist was the climactic point of their corporate “re-telling of the salvation story.” When our worship becomes a rich feast, our faith is nourished and no longer anemic. The more our worship speaks of Christ, the more we enter into the mystery of faith.

Trinitarian Perspectives

Author: Thomas F. Torrance
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780567087034
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
The doctrine of the Trinity has become the focal point of theological discussion and has immense implications for our knowledge of God. Professor Torrance shows that God is not a remote, unknowable deity but is free to go outside of himself in order to share with us the Communion of Love which he is himself. Throughout this study, Professor Torrance brings out the existing ecumenical consensus between Roman and Protestant Churches and the recent agreement between Orthodox and Reformed Churches. In the exploration of this theme and, through the examination of critical issues in the history of thought, he points a way toward doctrinal agreement.