Experiencing Good Worship?

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Daniel T. Benedict and Craig Kennet Miller, Contemporary Worship for the 21st Century: Worship or Evangelism? (Nashville: United Methodist Publishing House, 2000), 7.

This affirmation is recorded in the tradition of Hippolytus and presumed to date at least to the early third century, if not earlier. See R. C. D. Jasper and G. J. Cuming, Prayers of the Eucharist: Early and Reformed, 3rd ed. (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1987), 31–32.

Geoffrey Wainwright, Doxology: The Praise of God in Worship, Doctrine and Life (London: Epworth Press, 1980), 16.

Compare, for example, the first answer of The Westminster Larger Catechism (1647)—“[Humanity's] chief and highest end is to glorify God and fully to enjoy [God] forever”—(The Westminster Larger Catechism, n.d. (1647), Grand Rapids: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, http://www.ccel.org/ccel/anonymous/westminster2.pdf) and the twenty-seventh paragraph of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1993)—“The desire of God is written in the human heart, because [humanity] is created by God and for God” (Catechism of the Catholic Church [Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1993], http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM#fonte).

Quentin J. Schultze, High-Tech Worship? Using Presentational Technologies Wisely (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2004), 25.

Schultze, High-Tech Worship, 29.

Gordon W. Lathrop, Holy Things: A Liturgical Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993), 221.

A union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist streams.

Uniting Church in Australia, Uniting in Worship 2 (Sydney: Uniting Church Press, 2005).

Uniting in Worship 2, 199–202. The extensive genealogy of this addition includes the work of biblical scholars such as Claus Westermann, for example, his Praise and Lament in the Psalms (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1981); Walter Brueggemann, for example, The Psalms and the Life of Faith, ed. Patrick D. Miller (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 1995); and systematic and practical theologians Kathleen Billman and Daniel Migliore, Rachel's Cry: Prayer of Lament and Rebirth of Hope (Cleveland: United Church Press, 1999). Brueggemann visited and lectured on the Psalms in Christian practice at Trinity Theological College in Brisbane in the mid-1980s when two key members of the National Working Group on Worship responsible for Uniting in Worship 2 were undertaking their ordination studies. These members were the editor of Uniting in Worship 2, Paul Walton, and the primary author of “Gathering of the People (B),” Anita Monro. Feminist and other social justice concerns also informed the inclusion. For further information on the influence of the practice of lament in the worship practices of the Uniting Church, see Anita Monro and Stephen Burns, “Faithful Prayer on Parched Land: On Being Asked to Provide Liturgies for a Time of Drought,” Uniting Church Studies 14, no. 2 (2008): 51–64.

Uniting in Worship 2, 13–14.

Gordon W. Lathrop, Holy Ground: A Liturgical Cosmology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003), 217.

See Lathrop, Holy Things, 221.

Lathrop, Holy Things, 221.

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Anita Monro

Anita Monro is a presbyter in The Uniting Church in Australia. She currently serves as principal of Grace College, a residential college for young women attending the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.