Protestant Worship

by James F. White

Book Overview

Each year a billion dollars is spent on church buildings in the United States. Yet there is no authoritative book available to guide building committees, ministers, and others responsible for new... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664250378
• ISBN13: 9780664250379
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great book!!

I found this book extremely useful!! Is all I wanted to know -as a first approach to protestant worship. I reccommend it to all the people interested in protestant traditions, differences and origins. Besides, the book is very well-written (so you won't get tired of it easily!) and it is not excessively long. It's a great option!

What a treasure!

As I was going through my inquirer's class in the Episcopal Church, I ran across this book in the local Bible Book Store. It only encouraged me to continue. I absolutely recommend it to everyone interested in Protestant Christianity. For example, I was totally baffled as to why the church I was attending had the choir separated from the congregation and facing each other or a blank wall, in a completely illogical manner. Once I read Professor White's description of the church buildings encouraged after the rather ambitious Catholic Revival in the Anglican Communion, I understood. But that is only about one chapter in this comprehensive book. Professor White describes with dispassion and accuracy the worship of virtually all the mainline Protestant denominations and their development since the Reformation. If you find this topic interesting, this is an indispensable book.

An exceptional synthesis

As one who has studied liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and as one who has had a long interest in Protestant worship traditions, I found Professor White's work exceptional. Few other persons, if any, could pull together so much information from such an array of sources and present it richly in a way that is very understandable. As one who has a library of several hundred books on liturgy, this work would definitely be one of the five or ten that I would keep if I had to get rid of all others.

Excellent Source Book tracing Protestant Traditions

Ever wonder how different denominations came into existence? where did baptists come from? what is the history of methodism? in a consise chapter on each of the major denominational developments following the reformation, James F. White traces the origins of each denomination, and follows them through to their modern incarnations. excellent for the beginning church historian.