1. BIBLICAL STUDIES

a. Aniol, Scott. “Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs: Assessing the Debate.” Artistic Theologian 6 (2018): 13– 18.

b. Balentine, Samuel E. The Torah’s Vision of Worship. Overtures to Biblical Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999.

c. Bechtel, Carol M. Touching the Altar: The Old Testament for Christian Worship. The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship liturgical studies series. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Pub, 2008.

d. Block, Daniel I. For the Glory of God: Recovering a Biblical Theology of Worship. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2014.

e. Carson, Donald A. “Silent In The Churches.” In Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism, edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem, 140–153. Wheaton: Crossway Books, 1991.

f. Due, Noel. Created for Worship: From Genesis to Revelation to You. Fearn, Ross-shire, UK: Mentor, 2005.

g. Gordley, Matthew E. New Testament Christological Hymns: Exploring Texts, Contexts, and Significance. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2018.

h. Jamieson, R. B. Jesus’ Death and Heavenly Offering in Hebrews. Society for New Testament studies monograph series 172. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

i. Longman, Tremper, III. Immanuel in Our Place: Seeing Christ in Israel’s Worship. The Gospel according to the Old Testament. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2001.

j. Ross, Allen P. Recalling the Hope of Glory: Biblical Worship from the Garden to the New Creation. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2006.

k. Schedtler, Justin P. Jeffcoat. “The Hymns in Revelation.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Book of Revelation, edited by Craig R. Koester, 115–130. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.


2. THEOLOGY

a. Allison, Gregg R. Historical Theology: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine: A Companion to Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011.

b. Allison, Gregg R. Sojourners and Strangers: The Doctrine of the Church. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012.

c. Beale, G. K. The Temple and the Church’s Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2004.

d. Beale, G. K. We Become What We Worship: A Biblical Theology of Idolatry. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2008.

e. Begbie, Jeremy, and Steven R. Guthrie. Resonant Witness: Conversations between Music and Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011.

f. Begbie, Jeremy. Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013. [Especially chapter 2: “Shifting Sensibilities: Calvin and Music”]

g. Best, Harold M. Unceasing Worship: Biblical Perspectives on Worship and the Arts. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2003.

h. Boswell, Matt, ed. Doxology and Theology: How the Gospel Forms the Worship Leader. Nashville: B & H, 2013.

i. Boulton, Matthew Myer. God against Religion: Rethinking Christian Theology Through Worship. The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship liturgical studies series. Grand Rapids: W. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co, 2008.

j. Brown, Frank Burch. Inclusive yet Discerning: Navigating Worship Artfully. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Pub, 2009.

k. Carson, D. A., ed. Worship by the Book. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002.

l. Cuneo, Terence. Ritualized Faith: Essays on the Philosophy of Liturgy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

m. Ellis, Christopher J. Gathering: A Spirituality and Theology of Worship in Free Church Tradition. London: SCM, 2004.

n. Gurthrie, Steven R. Creator Spirit: The Holy Spirit and the Art of Becoming Human. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2011.

o. Horton, Michael. A Better Way: Rediscovering the Drama of God-Centered Worship. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2002.

p. Hughes, Graham. Worship as Meaning: A Liturgical Theology for Late Modernity. Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine 10. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

q. Jones, Cheslyn, Geoffrey Wainwright, Edward Yamold, and Paul Bradshaw, eds. The Study of Liturgy. Rev. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

r. Leeman, Jonathan. “A Baptist View of the Royal Priesthood of All Believers.” Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 23, no. 1 (2019): 113–135.

s. Leithart, Peter J. From Silence to Song: The Davidic Liturgical Revolution. Moscow, ID: Canonpress, 2003.

t. Leithart, Peter J. Theopolitan Liturgy. Theopolis Fundamentals. West Monroe, LA: Theopolis Books, 2019.

u. Lister, J. Ryan. The Presence of God: Its Place in the Storyline of Scripture and the Story of Our Lives. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015.

v. Old, Hughes Oliphant. Themes and Variations for a Christian Doxology: Some Thoughts on the Theology of Worship. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992.

w. Perrin, Nicholas. Jesus the Priest. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2018.

x. Perrin, Nicholas. Jesus the Temple. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2010.

y. Peterson, David. Engaging with God: A Biblical Theology of Worship. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993.

z. Rathe, Alan. Evangelicals, Worship, and Participation: Taking a Twenty-First Century Reading. Farnham Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2014.

aa. Ryken, Philip Graham, Derek Thomas, and J. Ligon Duncan, eds. Give Praise to God: A Vision for Reforming Worship: Celebrating the Legacy of James Montgomery Boice. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Pub, 2003.

bb. Saliers, Don E. Worship as Theology: Foretaste of Glory Divine. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1994.

cc. Vanhoozer, Kevin J. Pictures at a Theological Exhibition: Scenes of the Church’s Worship, Witness, and Wisdom. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016.

dd. Wainwright, Geoffrey. Doxology: The Praise of God in Worship, Doctrine, and Life: a Systematic Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

ee. Webster, John. “‘In the Society of God’: Some Principles of Ecclesiology.” In God without Measure: Working Papers in Christian Theology, Volume I: God and the Works of God, 177–194. London: T&T Clark, 2016.

ff. Wilson, Andrew. Spirit and Sacrament: An Invitation to Eucharismatic Worship. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2019.

gg. Witvliet, John D. Worship Seeking Understanding: Windows into Christian Practice. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003.

hh. Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Acting Liturgically: Philosophical Reflections on Religious Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

ii. Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Hearing the Call: Liturgy, Justice, Church, and World. Edited by Mark R. Gornik and Gregory Thompson. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011.

jj. Wolterstorff, Nicholas. The God We Worship: An Exploration of Liturgical Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2015.


3. CULTURAL STUDIES

a. Abbington, James, ed. Readings in African American Church Music and Worship, vol 1 and 2. GIA Publications: 2002.

b. Bergler, Thomas E. The Juvenilization of American Christianity. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012. 

c. Carson, D. A. Christ and Culture Revisited. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008.

d. Crookshank, Esther. “Ethnodoxology and the Church’s Worship: An Introduction.” Augustine Collegiate Review 2, no. 1 (Summer, 2018): 37–53.

e. Crouch, Andy.  Culture Making: Recovering our Creative Calling. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2008.

f. DeNora, Tia. Music in Everyday Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

g. Edwards, Korie L. “Race, Religion, and Worship: Are Contemporary African-American Worship Practices Distinct?” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48, no. 1 (2009): 30–52.

h. Edwards, Korie L. The Elusive Dream: The Power of Race in Interracial Churches. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

i. Farhadian, Charles E. Christian Worship Worldwide: Expanding Horizons, Deepening Practices. Calvin Institute of Christian Worship liturgical studies series. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Pub, 2007.

j. Farley, Edward. Faith and Beauty: A Theological Aesthetic. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2001.

k. Frith, Simon. Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

l. Gilmour, Michael J. Gods and Guitars: Seeking the Sacred in Post-1960s Popular Music. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2009.

m. Howard, Jay R., and John M. Streck. Apostles of Rock: The Splintered World of Contemporary Christian Music. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999.

n. Johnson, Dru. Human Rites: The Power of Rituals, Habits, and Sacrament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2019.

o. Marti, Gerardo. Worship across the Racial Divide: Religious Music and the Multiracial Congregation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

p. Maynard-Reid, Pedrito U. Diverse Worship: African-American, Caribbean, and Hispanic Perspectives. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2000.

q. Myers, Ken. All God’s Children & Blue Suede Shoes: Christians and Popular Culture. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1989.

r. Pollard, Deborah Smith. When the Church Becomes Your Party: Contemporary Gospel Music. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008.

s. Pritchard, G. A., Willow Creek Seeker Services, Grand Rapids: Baker Books: 1996.

t. Rice, Timothy. Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

u. Ross, Melanie. Evangelical vs. Liturgical? Defying a Dichotomy. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014.

v. Scruton, Roger. Beauty: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

w. Smith, James K. A. Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2009.

x. Smith, James K. A. Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2013.

y. Smith, James K. A. You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2016.

z.  Spinks, Bryan D. The Worship Mall: Contemporary Responses to Contemporary Culture. New York, NY: Church Publishing, 2010.

aa. Taylor, W. David (ed). For the Beauty of the Church. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic 2010

bb. Taylor, W. David O. Glimpses of the New Creation: Worship and the Formative Power of the Arts. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2019.

cc. Treier, Daniel J. (ed) The Beauty of God: Theology and the Arts. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic 2007.

dd. Van Opstal, Sandra Maria. The Next Worship: Glorifying God in a Diverse World. Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2015.

ee. Vermurlen, Brad. “Structural Overlap and the Management of Cultural Marginality: The Case of Calvinist Hip-hop.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology 4 (2016): 68–106.

ff. Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Art in Action. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980.

gg. York, Terry W. “Multicultural Congregations and Worship: A Literature Review.” Family and Community Ministries 27, no. 1 (2014).


4. PRAYER

a. Bennett, Arthur, ed. The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1975.

b. Old, Hughes Oliphant. Leading in Prayer: A Workbook for Ministers. Grand Rapids: W.B. Eerdmans, 1995.


5. PSALM STUDIES

a. Billings, J. Todd. Rejoicing in Lament: Wrestling with Incurable Cancer and Life in Christ. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2015.

b. Braulik, G. “Psalter and Messiah: Towards a Christological Understanding of the Psalms in the Old Testament and the Church Fathers.” In Psalms and Liturgy, edited by D. J. Human and C. J. A. Vos, 15–40. London: T&T Clark, 2004.

c. Calvin, John. Heart Aflame: Daily Readings from Calvin on the Psalms. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 1999.

d. Futato, Mark D. Transformed by Praise: The Purpose and Message of the Psalms. Phillipsburg: P&R, 2002.

e. Gillingham, Susan E. Psalms through the Centuries, vol. 1. Blackwell Bible Commentaries. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008.

f. Harrison, Carol. “Enchanting the Soul: The Music of the Psalms.” In Meditations of the Heart: The Psalms in Early Christian Thought and Practice, edited by Andreas Andreopoulos, Augustine Casiday, and Carol Harrison, Turnhout, 205–223. Belgium: Brepols, 2011.

g. Hays, Richard. The Conversion of the Imagination: Paul As Interpreter of Israel’s Scripture. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005. [Especially “Christ Prays the Psalms: Israel’s Psalter as Matrix of Early Christology,” 101–18.]

h. Johnston, Philip S. and David G. Firth, eds. Interpreting the Psalms: Issues and Approaches. Leicester: Apollos, 2005.

i. Mays, James L. The Lord Reigns: A Theological Handbook to the Psalms. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1994.

j. Schmutzer, Andrew J., and David M. Howard Jr., eds. The Psalms: Language for All Seasons of the Soul. Chicago: Moody, 2013.

k. Tackmier, Bill. “Life with Yahweh After Death: How the Psalter’s References to Life After Death Cohere.” PhD dissertation, Concordia Seminary, 2020.

l. Waltke, Bruce K. and James M. Houston. The Psalms as Christian Worship: A Historical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.

m. Wells, C. Richard, and Ray Van Neste. Forgotten Songs: Reclaiming the Psalms for Christian Worship. Nashville: B & H, 2012.

n. Witvliet, John D. The Biblical Psalms in Christian Worship: A Brief Introduction and Guide to Resources. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.

o.  Wright, N. T. The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2013.


6. HYMN STUDIES

a. Blumhofer, Edith L., and Mark A. Noll. Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land: Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2004.

b. Marini, Stephen. “Hymnody as History: Early Evangelical Hymns and the Recovery of American Popular Religion.” Church History 71, no. 2 (2002): 273-306.

c. Mouw, Richard J., and Mark A. Noll. Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns and Evangelical Protestant Traditions in America. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.

d. Noll, Mark A., and Edith L. Blumhofer. Sing Them over Again to Me: Hymns and Hymnbooks in America. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006.

e. Routley, Erik, and Paul Akers Richardson. Panorama of Christian Hymnody. 2nd ed. Chicago: GIA, 2005.

f. Watson, J. R. The English Hymn. Oxford: Clarendon, 1997.

g. Van Dyken, Tamara J. “Singing the Gospel: Evangelical Hymnody, Popular Religion, and American Culture, 1870–1940.” PhD dissertation, University of Notre Dame, 2008.

h. Hoeltke, Beth. “A Theology of Creation Lived Out in Christian Hymnody.” PhD dissertation, Concordia Seminary, 2014.

i. Luecke, James R. “An Analysis and Comparison of Eschatological Elements in the Hymns and Sermons of the Luther Church—Missouri Synod.” BDiv thesis, Concordia Seminary, 1955.

j. McDonnell, Ruth. “Whither the Body: Using the Church’s Hymnody to Reassert the Hope of the Bodily Resurrection.” PhD dissertation, Concordia Seminary, 2020.

k. Boswell, Matthew Charles. “The Singing Lion of London: Hymnody as a Pedagogical and Doxological Tool in the Pastoral Ministry of Charles Spurgeon.” PhD dissertation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2020.

l. Schmalbach, Larry Allen. “When the Roll is Called up Yonder: Eschatology in the Twentieth Century American Hymnal.” D. Litt., Drew University, 2000.


7. HISTORICAL STUDIES

a. COMPREHENSIVE

i. Berger, Teresa and Bryan D. Spinks, eds. Imagined Past/s: Methodologies and Materials in the Writing of Liturgical History Today. Collegeville, MN: Pueblo, 2016.

ii. Chapell, Bryan. Christ-Centered Worship: Letting the Gospel Shape Our Practice. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2009.

iii. Foley, Edward. From Age to Age: How Christians Have Celebrated the Eucharist. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2008.

iv. González, Justo L. A Brief History of Sunday: From the New Testament to the New Creation. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017.

v. Johnson, Maxwell E., ed. Sacraments and Worship: The Sources of Christian Theology. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2012.

vi. Maynard-Reid, Pedrito U. “Worship through the Ages.” In Diverse Worship: African-American, Caribbean, & Hispanic Perspectives, 29–40. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2000.

vii. Senn, Frank C. Christian Liturgy: Catholic and Evangelical. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1997.

viii. Stringer, Martin A. Sociological History of Christian Worship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

ix. Vogel, Dwight W., ed. Primary Sources of Liturgical Theology: A Reader. Collegeville, MN: Pueblo, 2000.

x. Wainwright, Geoffrey and Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, eds. Oxford History of Christian Worship, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

xi. Westermeyer, Paul. Te Deum: The Church and Music: A Textbook, a Reference, a History, an Essay. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998.

xii. Wilson-Dickson, Andrew. The Story of Christian Music. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996.

b. EARLY CHURCH

i. Alikin, Valeriy A. The Earliest History of the Christian Gathering: Origin, Development, and Content of the Christian Gathering in the First to Third Centuries. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 102. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

ii. Bauckham, Richard J. “Jesus, Worship of,” Pages 812–819 in vol. 3 of Anchor Bible Dictionary. Edited by David Noel Freedman.  6 volumes.  Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1992.

iii. Bradshaw, Paul F. The Search for The Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of Early Liturgy. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

iv. Bradshaw, Paul F., and Maxwell E. Johnson. The Origins of Feasts, Fasts, and Seasons in Early Christianity. Collegeville: Liturgical, 2011.

v. Carson, D.A., ed. From Sabbath to Lord’s Day: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Investigation. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1982.

vi. Gradel, Ittai. Emperor Worship and Roman Religion. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Claredon, 2002.

vii. Hurtato, Larry W. Destroyer of the gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2016.

viii. Hurtato, Larry W. Honoring the Son: Jesus in Earliest Christian Devotional Practice. Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2018.

ix. Hurtato, Larry W. One God, One Lord: Early Christian Devotion and Ancient Jewish Monotheism. 3rd ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.

x. McGowan, Andrew B. Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspective. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014.

xi. Ruth, Lester, Carrie Steenwyk, and John D. Witvliet. Walking Where Jesus Walked: Worship in Fourth-Century Jerusalem. Cambridge, U.K.: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co, 2010.

xii. Springtime of the Liturgy: Liturgical Texts of the First Four Centuries, edited by Lucien Deiss and translated by Matthew J. O’Connell, 111–120. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1979.

xiii. Stapert, Calvin. A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church. Grand Rapids, Mich: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co, 2007.

c. MEDIEVAL CHURCH

i. Eire, Carlos M. N. War against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship from Erasmus to Calvin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

ii. Gittos, Helen, and Sarah Hamilton, eds. Understanding Medieval Liturgy: Essays in Interpretation. New York: Routledge, 2016.

iii. Pfaff, Richard W. Medieval Latin Liturgy: A Select Bibliography. Toronto Medieval Bibliographies 9. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982.

iv. Pfaff, Richard W. The Liturgy in Medieval England: A History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

v. Salisbury, Matthew Cheung. Worship in Medieval England. Leeds, UK: Arc Humanities, 2018.

vi. Vogel, Cyrille. Medieval Liturgy. An Introduction to the Sources. Translated by William Storey and Niels Rasmussen. NPM Studies in Church Music and Liturgy. Washington, DC: The Pastoral Press, 1986.

vii. Wegman, Herman. Christian Worship in East and West: A Study Guide to Liturgical History. Trans. by Gordon W. Lathrop, 1985. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 1990.

viii. Wybrew, Hugh. The Orthodox Liturgy: The Development of the Eucharistic Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s, 1990.

d. REFORMATION

i. Brewer, Brian C. Martin Luther and the Seven Sacraments: A Contemporary Protestant Reappraisal. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2017.

ii. Burger, Christopher. “Luther’s Thought Took Shape in Translation of Scripture and Hymns.” In The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther’s Theology, edited by Robert Kolb, Irene Dingel, and L'ubomír Batka, 481–488. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

iii. Davies, Horton. The Worship of the English Puritans. London: Dacre Press, 1948. Reprinted by Soli Deo Gloria Ministries, 1997.

iv. Gibson, Jonathan and and Mark Earngey, eds. Reformation Worship: Liturgies from the Past for the Present. Greensboro, NC: New Growth, 2018.

v. Gordon, Bruce. “‘It Is the Lord’s Passover’: History, Theology, and Memory in the Liturgy of the Lord’s Supper in Reformation Zurich.” In Liturgy’s Imagined Pasts: Methodologies and Materials in the Writing of Liturgical History Today. Edited by Teresa Berger and Bryan D. Spinks, pgs. 176–204. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 2016.

vi. Hyde, Daniel R. ‘Of Great Importance and of High Concernment’: The Liturgical Theology of John Owen (1616–1683).” ThM thesis, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, 2010.

vii. Jacobs, Alan. The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.

viii. Leaver, Robin A. The Whole Church Sings: Congregational Singing in Luther’s Wittenberg. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017.

ix. Maag, Karin. Lifting Hearts to the Lord: Worship with John Calvin in Sixteenth-Century Geneva. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016.

x. Null, Ashley. Thomas Cranmer’s Doctrine of Repentance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

xi. Old, Hughes Oliphant. The Patristic Roots of Reformed Worship. Zurich: Theologischer Verlag, 1975.

xii. Ward, Matthew. Pure Worship: The Early English Baptist Distinctive. Monographs in Baptist History, vol. 3. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2014.

xiii. Williams, Leslie Winfield. Emblem of Faith Untouched: A Short Life of Thomas Cranmer. Library of Religious Biography. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016.

e. REVIVALISM

i. Branch, Lori. Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2006.

ii. Caldwell, Robert W. III. Theologies of the American Revivalists: From Whitefield to Finney. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2017.

iii. Farley, Michael A. “Reforming Reformed Worship: Theological Method and Liturgical Catholicity in American Presbyterianism, 1850-2005.” Ph.D. diss., Saint Louis University, 2007.

iv. Haykin, Michael A.G. “‘His soul-refreshing presence’: The Lord’s Supper in Calvinistic Baptist Thought and Experience in the ‘Long’ Eighteenth Century.” In Baptist Sacramentalism, Studies in Baptist History and Thought, volume 5. Edited by Anthony R. Cross and Philip E. Thompson, pgs. 177–193. Waynesboro, GA: Authentic/Paternoster, 2003.

v. Hustad, Donald P. “Baptist Worship Forms: Uniting the Charleston and Sandy Creek Traditions.” Review and Expositor 85 (1988): 31–42.

vi. Kane, Paula Marie. “American Revival Songs, 1820–1850: The Christian Lyre and Spiritual Songs for Social Worship.” Fenwick Scholarship Thesis, College of the Holy Cross, 1980.

vii. Kilde, Jeanne Halgren. When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

viii. Maddox, Randy L. “‘Anticipate Our Heaven Below’: The Emphatic Hope and Abiding Tone of Charles Wesley’s Eschatology.” Proceedings of the Charles Wesley Society 17 (2013): 11–34.

ix. Ross, Melanie C. “Liturgy’s Past on the American Frontier.” In Liturgy’s Imagined Pasts: Methodologies and Materials in the Writing of Liturgical History Today. Edited by Teresa Berger and Bryan D. Spinks, pgs. 230–. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 2016.

x. Smith, Ted A. The New Measures: A Theological History of Democratic Practice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

xi. Yeo, Douglas. “Homer Rodeheaver: Reverend Trombone.” Historic Brass Society Journal 27 (2015): 1–32.


8. CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP

a. Benedict, Bruce. “Refurbished Hymns in an Age of Vintage Faith: Millennials and the Retuned Hymn Movement.” Liturgy 32, no.1 (2017): 54–61.

b. Bowler, Kate. Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

c. Bowler, Kate and Wen Reagan. “Bigger, Better, Louder: The Prosperity Gospel’s Impact on Contemporary Worship.” In Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 24, no. 2 (2014): 186–230.

d. Busman, Joshua K. “(Re)Sounding Passion—Listening to American Evangelical Worship Music, 1997-2015.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015.

e. Fromm, Charles E. “Textual Communities and New Song in the Multimedia Age: The Routinization of Charisma in the Jesus Movement.” Ph.D. diss., Fuller Theological Seminary, 2006.

f. Haynes, Maren. ‘Punk Rock Calvinists Who Hate the Modern Worship Movement’: Ritual, Power, and White Masculinity in Mars Hill Church’s Worship Music.” PhD dissertation, University of Washington, 2017.

g. Holmes, Stephen R. “Listening for the Lex Orandi: The Constructed Theology of Contemporary Worship Events.” Scottish Journal of Theology 66, no. 2 (2013): 192–208.

h. Ingalls, Monique Marie, Carolyn Landau, and Thomas Wagner. Christian Congregational Music: Performance, Identity, and Experience. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2013.  

i. Ingalls, Monique, and Amos Young, ed. The Spirit of Praise: Music and Worship in Global Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015.

j. Ingalls, Monique. Singing the Congregation: How Contemporary Worship Music Forms Evangelical Community. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

k. Kelman, Ari Y. Shout to the Lord: Making Worship Music in Evangelical America. New York: New York University Press, 2018.

l. Koenig, Sarah. “This Is My Daily Bread: Toward a Sacramental Theology of Evangelical Praise and Worship.” Worship 82, no. 2 (2008): 141-61.

m. Nekola, Anna E. “Between This World and the Next: The Musical ‘Worship Wars’ and Evangelical Identity in the United States, 1960–2005.” PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008.

n. Packiam, Glenn Previn. “Worship and the World to Come: A Theological Ethnography of Hope in Contemporary Worship Songs and Services.” ThD thesis, Durham University, 2017.

o. Park, Andy, Lester Ruth, and Cindy Rethmeier. Worshiping with the Anaheim Vineyard: The Emergence of Contemporary Worship. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017.

p. Reagan, Wen. “A Beautiful Noise: A History of Contemporary Worship Music in Modern America.” PhD dissertation, Duke University, 2015.

q. Redman, Robb. The Great Worship Awakening: Singing a New Song in the Postmodern Church. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002.

r. Ruth, Lester and Swee Hong Lim. Lovin’ On Jesus: A Concise History of Contemporary Worship. Nashville: Abingdon, 2017.

s. Scheer, Greg. “Shout to the Lord: Praise and Worship from Jesus People to Gen X.” In New Songs of Celebration Render: Congregational Song in the Twenty-first Century, edited by C. Michael Hawn, 175-205. Chicago: GIA, 2013.

t. Woods, Robert, and Brian Walrath, eds. The Message in the Music: Studying Contemporary Praise & Worship. Nashville: Abingdon, 2007.


9. PRACTICAL STUDIES

a. Allen, Holly Catterton and Christine Lawton Ross. Intergenerational Christian Formation: Bringing the Whole Church Together in Ministry, Community, and Worship. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2012.

b. Cherry, Constance M. The Worship Architect: A Blueprint for Designing Culturally Relevant and Biblically Faithful Services. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2010.

c. Cosper, Mike. Rhythms of Grace: How the Church’s Worship Tells the Story of the Gospel. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013.

d. Dever, Mark, and Paul Alexander. The Deliberate Church: Building Your Ministry on the Gospel. Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Books, 2005. (Esp. “Section 2—When The Church Gathers,” pgs. 77–130).

e. Hicks, Zac. The Worship Pastor: A Call to Ministry for Worship Leaders and Teams. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2016.

f. Kauflin, Bob. Worship Matters: Leading Others to Encounter the Greatness of God. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2008.

g. Malefyt, Norma deWaal, and Howard Vanderwall. Designing Worship Together: Models and Strategies for Worship Planning. Vital Worship, Healthy Congregations. Herndon, VA: Alban Institute, 2005.

h. Merker, Matt. Corporate Worship: How the Church Gathers as God’s People. Building Healthy Churches. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2021.

i. Peterson, David. Encountering God Together: Leading Worship Services That Honor God, Minister to His People, and Build His Church. Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R, 2014.

j. Piper, John. The Supremacy of God in Preaching. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2004.

k. Rienstra, Debra and Ron Rienstra. Worship Words: Discipling Language for Faithful Ministry. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2009.

l. Ruth, Lester, ed. Flow: The Ancient Way to do Contemporary Worship. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 2020.

m. Scheer, Greg.  The Art of Worship: A Musician’s Guide to Leading Modern Worship.  Grand Rapids: Baker, 2006.

n. Trueman, Carl R. “Nothing to Celebrate.” First Things. February 23, 2016. https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2016/02/nothing-to-celebrate.

o. Trueman, Carl R. “Tragic Worship.” First Things 234 (June-July 2013): 19–21.

p. Whitney, Donald S. Family Worship. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2016.

q. Witvliet, Charlotte vanOyen. “Speaking Well in Worship about Mental Illnesses: A Beginner’s Guide to Language and Resources.” Reformed Worship 128 (June, 2018).

r. Witvliet, John D. “The Cumulative Power of Transformation in Public Worship.” In Worship That Changes Lives: Multidisciplinary and Congregational Perspectives on Spiritual Transformation, edited by Alexis D. Abernethy, 41-58. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008.

s. Wolterstorff, Nicholas. “Thinking about Church Music.” In Music in Christian Worship: At the Service of the Liturgy, edited by Charlotte Kroeker, 3-17. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 2005.


10. SACRAMENTS/ORDINANCES

a. Billings, J. Todd. Remembrance, Communion, and Hope: Rediscovering the Gospel at the Lord’s Table. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2018.

b. Chester, Tim. Truth We Can Touch: How Baptism and Communion Shape Our Lives. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020.

c. Davis, John Jefferson. Worship and the Reality of God: An Evangelical Theology of Real Presence. Downers Grove, Ill: IVP Academic, 2010.

d. DeBie, Linden J. Coena Mystica: Debating Reformed Eucharistic Theology. The Mercersburg Theology Study Series, volume 2. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2013.

e. Fowler, Stanley K. More than a Symbol: The British Baptist Recovery of Baptismal Sacramentalism. Studies in Baptist History and Thought 2. Carlisle, UK: Paternoster, 2002.

f. George, Timothy. “The Sacramentality of the Church: An Evangelical Baptist Perspective.” In Baptist Sacramentalism, Studies in Baptist History and Thought, volume 5. Edited by Anthony R. Cross and Philip E. Thompson, pgs. 21–35. Waynesboro, GA: Authentic/Paternoster, 2003.

g. Hunsinger, George. “Sacraments.” In The Oxford Handbook of Karl Barth, edited by Paul Dafydd Jones and Paul T. Nimmo, 451–466. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

h. Jamieson, Bobby. Understanding Baptism. Church Basics. Nashville, TN: B&H, 2016.

i. Jamieson, Bobby. Understanding the Lord’s Supper. Church Basics. Nashville, TN: B&H, 2016.

j. Jensen, Gordon A. “Luther and the Lord’s Supper.” In Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther’s Theology, edited by Robert Kolb, Irene Dingel, and L'ubomír Batka, 322–332. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

k. Jensen, Robin M. Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity: Ritual, Visual, and Theological Dimensions. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012.

l. Kalantzis, George and Marc Cortez. Come, Let Us Eat Together: Sacraments and Christian Unity. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2018.

m. Leithart, Peter J. Blessed Are the Hungry: Meditations on the Lord’s Supper. Moscow, ID: Canon, 2000.

n. Leithart, Peter J. The Baptized Body. Moscow, ID: Canon, 2007.

o. Leithart, Peter J. The Priesthood of the Plebs: A Theology of Baptism. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2003.

p. Muller, Richard A. “Calvin on Sacramental Presence, in the Shadow of Marburg and Zurich.” Lutheran Quarterly 23, vol. 9 (2009): 147–167.

q. Nevin, John Williamson, Philip Schaff, and Emanuel V. Gerhart. Born of Water and the Spirit: Essays on the Sacraments and Christian Formation. The Mercersburg Theology Study Series 6. Edited by David W. Layman. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2016.

r. Rozeboom, Sue A. “Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper: Calvin’s Theology and Its Early Reception.” In Calvin’s Theology and Its Reception: Disputes, Developments, and New Possibilities. Edited by J. Todd Billings and I. John Hesselink, 143–165. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2012.

s. Schreiner, Thomas R. “The Ordinances of the Church and Its Ministry: The Building Up of the Body.” In Paul, Apostle of God’s Glory in Christ: A Pauline Theology, 371–410. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2001.

t. Schreiner, Thomas R. and Matthew R. Crawford, eds. The Lord’s Supper; Remembering and Proclaiming Christ until He Comes. Nashville: B&H, 2010.

u. Schreiner, Thomas R. and Shawn D. Wright, eds. Believer’s Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ. Nashville, TN: B&H, 2006.

v. Spinks, Bryan D. Early and Medieval Rituals and Theologies of Baptism: From the New Testament to the Council of Trent. Liturgy, Worship, and Society. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006.

w. Spinks, Bryan D. Reformation and Modern Rituals and Theologies of Baptism: From Luther to Contemporary Practices. Aldersthot, UK: Ashgate, 2006.

x. Streett, R. Alan. Caesar and the Sacrament: Baptism: A Rite of Resistance. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2018.

y. Strickland, Michael. “The (In)Significance of the Baptizer in the Early Church: The Importance of Baptism and Unimportance of the One Who Baptized.” JETS 61, vol. 2 (2018): 355–66.


11. ARCHITECTURE

a. Allison, Gregg. “The Church is Spatio-Temporal/Eschatological.” In Historical Theology. 148–151.

b. Barron, Robert E. Heaven in stone and glass: experiencing the spirituality of the great cathedrals. New York: Crossroad Pub. Co., 2000

c. Bartholomew, Craig G. Where Mortals Dwell: A Christian View of Place for Today. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2011.

d. Bruggink, Donald J., and Carl H. Droppers. When Faith Takes Form; Contemporary Churches of Architectural Integrity in America. Grand Rapids: W. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co, 1971.

e. Craft, Jennifer Allen. Placemaking and the Arts: Cultivating the Christian Life. Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2018.

f. de Botton, Alain. The Architecture of Happiness. New York: Vintage, 2006.

g. Giles, Richard. Re-Pitching the Tent: Re-Ordering the Church Building for Worship and Mission. Revised and expanded edition. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 2004.

h. Kieckhefer, Richard. Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

i. Kilde, Jeanne Halgren. “A ‘Spacious, Commodious and Comfortable Place to Speak’: Charles G. Finney’s Revolution in Church Architecture.” A paper delivered at the Spring Meeting of the American Society for Church History, Oberlin, Ohio, March 24, 1994.

j. O’Donovan, Oliver. “The Loss of a Sense of Place.” In Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics, Past and Present, 296–320. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.

k. Stegers, Rudolf. Sacred buildings: a design manual. Basel; Boston: Birkhäuser, 2008.

l. Stroik, Duncan G. The Church Building as a Sacred Place: Beauty, Transcendence, and the Eternal. Chicago/Mundelein, IL: Hillenbrand, 2012.

m. Torgerson, Mark A. An Architecture of Immanence: Architecture for Worship and Ministry Today. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.

n. Turner, Harold W. From Temple to Meeting House: The Phenomenology and Theology of Places of Worship. Religion and Society 16. The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1979.

o. Whyte, William Hadden. “Architecture.”  In The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought. Edited by Joel D.S. Rasmussen, Judith Wolfe, and Johannes Zachhuber, 471–482. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

p. Yates, Nigel. Liturgical Space: Christian Worship and Church Buildings in Western Europe, 1600–2000. Liturgy, Worship, and Society. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008.

q. Zimmerman, Joyce Ann. The Ministry of Liturgical Environment. Collegeville Ministry Series. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 2004.

 

*Listing of resources here represents their importance to the larger conversation of worship, not their theological agreement with any particular statement of faith.