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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Public worship."”.
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Engaging the Heart: Orthodoxy and Experimentalism in William Gadsby’s A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship
… in current use, <i>A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship</i> (1814), known informally as “Gadsby&#x2019;s Hymns.” During his lifetime Gadsby was criticized both for his anachronistic high orthodoxy and for his experimentalist modernity. To the men who argued with Gadsby, the …
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Charisma and controversy: Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) and the Baptist debate about congregational hymnody
… and began to propagate the use of hymns in public worship. These hymns were categorized as newly composed songs. There is a gap in scholarship surrounding this transformation within dissent. However, given that last Sunday about 630 million Evangelicals gathered to sing hymns, the singing …
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Application for the Sake of Transformation: A Study of Thomas Manton’s Categorical Approach to Sermon Application
… Perkins and the Westminster Directory for Public Worship, maintained a teleological aim of transformation through an informed mind as conceptualized in the Augustinian tradition. Chapter 1 introduces the key components of this study and articulate the thesis of this work. Chapter 2 provides …
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Exploring homilies and hymnody : the thematic relationship between George Whitefield's sermons and "A collection of hymns for social worship".
… Whitefield's A Collection of Hymns for Social Worship and presents a thematic analysis of the hymn book's lyrical content. This research contributes to a fuller understanding of Whitefield's evangelistic mission, provides a perspective on Whitefield's views on singing and hymnody, and suggests …
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To Take Posesion of the Crown: Forms, Themes, and Politics in Julia Palmer's Centuries
… lives of most British citizens at the time, the public literary expression of spiritual experiences-particularly by middle-class women-was uncommon within conventional Puritanism. The poetry's hybrid of forms, proliferation of religious themes, and undertones of political subversion offer an …
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Religion and the French Constitution of 1791
… of honor and the privilege of exclusive public worship. As far back as Merovingian times, the ecclesiastical order had been preeminent, and in the rare assemblies of the Estates General, the Clergy had held the first rank. This primacy was sanctioned by royal edict in 1695. Ten years …
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Civil Reformations: Religion in Dundee and Haddington C.1520-1565
… exercised significant control over religious worship in their towns, as they built and administered churches, hired clergy and provided divine worship as a public good. Up until 1560, the town councils fulfilled their responsibilities diligently, maintaining good relations with the clergy, …
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Religion in the life of the young adult at University College Cork : an investigation
… student priorities, membership of religion, public worship, private prayer, charitable works, beliefs and moral values. The data were analysed using simple frequencies, descriptive statistics, cross-tabulations, ANOVA and T-tests. Further insights were obtained by means of twenty depth …
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Evangelical Ecclesiology and Liturgical Reform in the Edwardian Reformation, c. 1545-1555
… invisible Church was given visible expression in public worship. This meant that Tudor men and women could actively participate in the spiritual communion of saints through the tangible experience of church services, especially through the sacraments and by observing the Sabbath. The examination …
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The Singing Lion of London: Hymnody as a Pedagogical And Doxological Tool in The Pastoral Ministry of Charles Spurgeon
… and doxological tool within the life and public worship of the local church. As pastor of London’s Metropolitan Tabernacle, he quoted hymns weekly in his sermons for decades. This dissertation, a mixed-methods study, documents the significance and extensive role of hymns in Spurgeon’s …
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The 1889 Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching and the recovery of the late homiletic of John Albert Broadus (1827-1895)
… 6 evaluates Broadus's final canon---"Conduct of Public Worship." This chapter will include materials from two Yale lectures, "The Young Preacher's Outfit" and "The Minister and His Bible." The substance of these addresses is distilled and surveyed for their contribution to Broadus's homiletic. …
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New megachurch : coexistence of sacred and secular
Protestants today seem to approach public worship with one or the other of two quite different attitudes. Many Protestants understand worship as primarily a matter of feelings; others see worship as basically work done in God's service. While there are glamorously designed churches emphasizing …
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A Comparative Content Analysis of Worship Leader Job Descriptions and Undergraduate Worship Leader Curricula in the Southern Baptist Convention
… to determine the characteristics described in worship leader job descriptions in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and examine the correspondence of these characteristics with worship leadership degree programs at Southern Baptist-affiliated colleges and universities. The researcher …
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Thomas A. Dorsey's influence on African-American worship
… focuses upon the background of African-American worship during the 1930s which served as the Sitz im Leben for Dorsey. This dissertation examines how Charles Albert Tindley's gospel hymn singing tradition influenced Dorsey to create and perpetuate gospel music as a theologically viable form of …
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Dissent and the Church of Scotland, 1660-1690
… with the post-Restoration church settlement and public reactions to that settlement, and these chapters are revisionist in approach. It is usually claimed that the decision to disestablish `presbytery' and revive `prelacy' in 1661 was unpopular, but the evidence in chapters one, two, and three …
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The Relationship Between Liturgical Practice and Spirituality in the Church of the Nazarene with Special Reference to John Wesley's Doctrine of Christian Perfection
… was promoted feverishly through revivalism and worship structured after the camp meeting model; however, over time the promotion and propagation of holiness began to wane. Currently, the belief in and pursuit of inward holiness among both clergy and laity are rapidly vanishing. For more than a …
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Worship : Hope for the Waiting Community
<p>The relationship between hope and worship has been neglected for too long in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Adventism in North America has lost much of its zeal for and emphasis on the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. A renewed awareness of corporate worship's importance would help Adventists …