Worship: Adoration and Action

by D. A. Carson

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2002

Overview

Avoiding a merely mechanical and pragmatic approach to worship, this collection of thirteen papers by an international team covers the biblical and systematic theology of worship, the heritage of the Reformers, and contemporary free church worship. Reflecting the diversity yet richness of the global church, this is fifth and final volume in the series edited by D A Carson for the WEF Theological Commission’s Faith and Church Study Unit.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Acceptable worship is something that God makes possible for us, through Christ: it does not depend on our own initiative, creativity, skill or worthiness. Apart from a faith-relationship with God through Jesus Christ there is now no worship that pleases him.” (Page 52)

“there is little attention in contemporary literature to the more fundamental question of a biblical theology of worship.” (Page 51)

“‘Bending over to the Lord’ in the Old Testament expressed surrender or submission to God.” (Page 53)

“In summary, in the patriarchal narratives the following elements are constitutive of worship: (1) setting up a place of worship, in particular ‘building an altar’ and offering a sacrifice upon it^27a and calling upon the divine name (with or without an altar present); (2) adopting the practice of circumcision as an important covenantal rite tied to worshipful response to God; (3) ‘bowing’ or ‘prostrating oneself’ as a reverential posture in worshipping God, (4) acknowledging the need of seeking God’s intervening help for practical living; and (5) praising God as an expression of thanksgiving to God and his goodness.” (Page 24)

“All this suggests the centrality of evangelism to an authentic New Testament theology of worship. Indeed, the aim of all Christian preaching should be to bring people to worship Christ in the sense of yielding their allegiance to him as Saviour and Lord.” (Page 65)

Product Details

• Title: Worship: Adoration and Action
• Author: D. A. Carson
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2002
• Logos Release Date: 2003
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Public worship; Liturgics
• ISBNs: 9781592440467, 1592440460, 9780801025846, 9780853645238, 0801025842, 085364523X
• Resource ID: LLS:42.50.6
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-02-13T21:04:09Z

About D. A. Carson

D.A. Carson (b. 1946) is one of the most respected New Testament scholars in the world. A respected teacher, author, and speaker, he is currently research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and the president of The Gospel Coalition. He has served as pastor of Richmond Baptist Church and as the first dean of the seminary of Northwest Baptist Theological College, now known as Northwest Baptist Seminary. Logos has collected his sermons—including audio—in the D.A. Carson Sermon Archive.

Carson lectures in academic and church settings around the world, and is the author of more than 50 books, including Exegetical Fallacies, Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel According to John, The Gagging of God, Showing the Spirit: A Theological Exposition of 1 Corinthians 12–14 and the Intolerance of Tolerance. He is the editor of the Pillar New Testament Commentary series, and coedited of the Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament with G.K. Beale, and the Studies in New Testament Greek series with Stanley Porter. You can find more of Carson’s work in the Baker D.A. Carson Collection (15 vols.).