The Services of the Christian Year (Complete Library of Christian Worship) [Hardcover]

Robert E. Webber (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1995 | Series: Complete Library of Christian Worship (Book 5)

"Services of the Christian Year is unrivaled in the breadth of the resources it makes available, both for understanding the celebrations of the Christian church and for the actual worship services which surround Christmas and Easter. It is enlightening and inspiring."
—Arlo D. Duba, Professor of Worship, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary

"Filled to the brim and running over, Services of the Christian Year offers a wealth of guidance, resources, and wisdom for the doing, leading, and understanding of worship. Busy and thoughtful pastors and others should find themselves turning to these pages again and again."
—John E. Burkhart, Cyrus H. McCormick Professor of Systematic Theology, McCormick Theological Seminary

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About the Author

Robert E. Webber, Th.D., has been on the forefront of the worship renewal movement for more than two decades as a speaker, author, and teacher. He has held the post of professor of theology at Wheaton College since 1968 and is currently involved in the development of the Institute of Worship Studies, a school for pastors and other church leaders. He is the author of Blended Worship, Worship is a Verb, and is the editor of The Complete Library of Christian Worship.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 544 pages
• Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers; Hendrickson Publishers' Ed edition (July 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565631919
• ISBN-13: 978-1565631915
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 9 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,426,671 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most comprehensive resource on worship, March 22, 2006

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Larry Ellis "Author of Forgiveness: Unleashin... (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This is a library organized by the many areas of worship. It is edited by Robert Webber who is one of the formost knowledgable persons alive today on the subject of worship. He has worked with hundreds of experts in the many varied arenas of worship and put together and absolutely invaluable resource. If you want to explore the history of Christian worship through ever generation or compare the many branches of the Christian community around the world and througout all of the past 2000 years, this is the library to purchase. It is becomming relativley difficult to purchase the entire library because they are no longer in print.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource, April 5, 2010

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The Services of the Christian Year is volume 5 in the Complete Library of Christian Worship series which is edited by Robert Webber. This book is an excellent resource for evangelicals who need a resource for orders of services and how to celebrate the Christian holy days. It starts with Advent and ends with Christ the King Sunday. This covers the entire Christian year. I am a pastor of a Church of God and used this book to conduct services since Advent began in 2009. We have just come through holy week and this book provides plenty of ideas about how to honor Christ through celebration.
It includes ideas, order of services, explanations of drama events, color schemes for the Lord's table, etc. One interesting feature of this book is that it has a section on how most major denominations view and use the Church calendar. One of my college professors from Lee University (Jerald Daffe) wrote the article on behalf of the Church of God.

I would recommend this book for pastors who want to move the Church away from secular ways of keeping holidays in the Church and bring the Church back to rightly focussing on the Church calendar as a Christ honoring way of proclaiming the gospel.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Services of the Christian Year, November 12, 2009

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