Religion 312: Christian Worship

Spring 2001

David R. Bains

Reserve List as of Jan. 31

Three-Hour Closed Reserve

 

Baptist Why and Why Not: Twenty-Five Papers by Twenty-Five Writers and a Declaration of Faith (Nashville: Sunday School Board, Southern Baptist Convention, 1900).

Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994)

Documents of Vatican II, ed. Austin P. Flannery (Costello Publishing Company, 1974)

Finney, Charles Grandison. Lectures on Revivals of Religion. Edited by William G. McLoughlin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960.

Hobbs, Herschel H. What Baptists Believe. Nashville: Broadman, 1964.

John of Damascus. On the Divine Images: Three Apologies Against Those Who Attack the Divine Images. Translated by David Anderson. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1980.

Magida, Arthur J., and Stuart M. Matlins. How to be a perfect stranger: a guide to etiquette in other people's religious ceremonies. 1st ed. ed. Woodstock, Vt.: Jewish Lights Pub., 1996. 2 Vols.

Michel, Virgil. "The Liturgy the Basis of Social Regeneration" Orate Fratres 9 (Nov. 2, 1935): 536-545. (Photocopy)

Stacy, R. Wayne, ed. A Baptist's Theology. Macon, Ga.: Smyth and Helwys, 1999.

Thompson, Bard, ed. Liturgies of Western Church. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1961.

White, James F. A Brief History of Christian Worship. Third Edition. Nashville: Abingdon, 1993. (on order)

White, James F. Documents of Christian Worship: Descriptive and Interpretive Sources. Louisville: Westminster / John Knox Press, 1992.

White, James F. Introduction to Christian Worship. Rev. ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 1990.

White, James F. Introduction to Christian Worship. Third. ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 2000.

White, James F. Protestant Worship: Traditions in Transition. Louisville: Westminster / John Knox Press, 1989.

Two-day reserve

Bains, David Ralph. "The Liturgical Impulse in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Mainline Protestantism." Ph.D., Harvard University, 1999. Examines liturgical reform movements among American Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregational churches from World War I to 1970. Introductory chapter useful for its description of Protestant worship around the turn of the century. (On order)

Book of Common Prayer (1928)

Book of Common Prayer (1979)

Dix, Gregory. The Shape of the Liturgy. London: Dacre Press, 1945. A mammoth, popular work. Exerted tremendous influence in shaping twentieth-century liturgical reform.

Jungman, Josef A. The Early Liturgy: To the Time of Gregory the Great. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1959.. Still a good narrative history of the development of early Christian worship.

Lutheran Book of Worship (1978)

United Methodist Hymnal (1989)