New Creation: Elements of a Liturgical Worldview

Although the twentieth century witnessed a thorough liturgical revival and renewal the last ten years exploded in diverse and conflicting styles settings and even media of corporate worship: traditional high-church liturgies alternative worship for small communities women church services seeker services at megachurches and more. Does this innovation portend a brave new liturgical world or is it just dumbing down? For example do megachurch services simply revive the old frontier revival and in an effort to reach out accommodate Christianity to the reigning consumer culture?One of todays most knowledgeable liturgical theologians and historians contemplates the future shape of liturgy. He believes that ritual systems-liturgyexpress and inculcate a worldview an implicit theology; and he fears lest the community of faith gain the whole world and lose its soul. New Creation proposes the lines of a Christian culture or worldview or way of life that can inform liturgical renewal. Twelve erudite and earnest chapters further specify this counter-cultural matrix as it pertains to God Christ church creation world worship hospitality culture evangelism prayer and life itself.