Reformation Worship is an invaluable tool for pastors, worship leaders, and anyone interested in crafting public worship services in the great tradition of the early Reformers.
Editors Jonathan Gibson and Mark Earngey transform corporate worship by presenting twenty-six liturgies along with historical introductions that provide fresh analysis of their origins and development. The editors make Reformation-era worship accessible by providing newly translated modern English texts from the original German, Dutch, French, Latin, and early English sources.
The structure, language, and rhythm of these liturgies continue to communicate the gospel in Word and sacrament today. The collection demonstrates how Reformers recovered congregational participation, biblical clarity, and the centrality of preaching and the sacraments, making these resources useful for contemporary worship planning and formation.
This volume is both practical and scholarly: pastors and worship leaders will find it a rich sourcebook for service planning, while students and theological scholars will value its historical introductions and comparative materials. It can also serve as a devotional guide to shape daily prayer and reflection.
By providing access to Reformation worship practices, Gibson and Earngey hope readers will experience what John Calvin described as the purpose of all church worship: "To what end is the preaching of the Word, the sacraments, the holy congregations themselves, and indeed the whole external government of the church, except that we may be united to God?"
Product Details
- Editors: Jonathan Gibson and Mark Earngey
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
- Dimensions: 6.0 x 9.0 inches