Worship as Theology

In Worship As Theology Don Saliers discusses how worship is both theological (God-centered) and anthropological (embodied and embedded in specific human and cultural contexts). He illuminates worship as a theology prayed sung and enacted. At the same time--by focusing upon specific dimensions of liturgical action such as praising thanking invoking confessing proclaiming interceding and blessing--he addresses the differences between the liturgical/sacramental and the free-church/evangelical church traditions.Underlying Saliers'' approach is his basic conviction that Christian liturgy is an eschatological art. Theological integrity in worship he asserts calls for a permanent tension in the forms and patterns which reflect the already and not yet of Christian life in the world for the sake of the world. Worship As Theology therefore begins and ends with the eschatology of the divine promise that the church''s cry is still Come Lord Jesus! and that God''s will be done on earth as in heaven.