CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Part I Rethinking

CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Part I: Rethinking the Worship Conflicts of the Last Fifty Years 29 June 2019 Dr. Lester Ruth Duke Divinity School

Kenya

Australia

Columbia

Oxford, England

Korea

The United States

The United States

Hong Kong

Growth in Publication Rate for “Praise and Worship”

Growth in Publication Rate for “Contemporary Worship”

The Two Terms Compared

The Rise of “Worship Wars”

“Traditional Worship” “Contemporary” Praise and Worship “Ancient Worship” Of the Liturgical Movement

“Traditional worship” is not that traditional.

Methodist Worship 80 Years Before

More Recent Methodist Worship

What If This Was “Traditional Worship”?

Shared a Common Goal: Replace “Traditional Worship” “Contemporary” Praise and Worship “Ancient Worship”

Praise and Worship “Traditional Worship” Contemporary Worship “Contemporary” Praise and Worship “Ancient Worship”

Hoping for a Working Alliance “Traditional Worship” “Contemporary” Praise and Worship “Ancient Worship”

What if we could envision something we could label as “ancient praise and worship” which drew on both insights from the early church and the best practices of recent “praise and worship”?

“Contemporary” Praise and Worship “Ancient Worship”