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Worship Matters, Kauflin
Christ-Centered Worship, Chapell
[Non-Logos] Worship By the Book, various author, edited by Carson
[Non-Logos, free] Gravity and Gladness, Piper
I find Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative by Robert E. Webber to be pretty good, better but more expensive is his 7 volume work The Complete Library of Christian Worship.
-Dan
Gordon Lathrop's trilogy - Holy Ground; Holy Things; Holy People
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
I have a book in my paper library by Robert Webber entitled: "Worship Is A Verb." I do not think that it is available in Logos, but it would be great addition.I find Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative by Robert E. Webber to be pretty good, better but more expensive is his 7 volume work The Complete Library of Christian Worship.
-Dan
That book is mentioned fondly in John Witvliet's forward of Ancient-Future Worship. It is a broader look but still comes from a view that Worship is a verb... if you enjoyed that book I would think you will very much enjoy this one.
-Dan
Hi Dan, the Ancient-Future series was one of the first purchases I made after getting L3...as a matter of act, I believe that I had to wait for it to go through Pre-Pub for several months before I was able to purchase it. And, yes, I really do like it (and the others in the series).That book is mentioned fondly in John Witvliet's forward of Ancient-Future Worship. It is a broader look but still comes from a view that Worship is a verb... if you enjoyed that book I would think you will very much enjoy this one.
-Dan
In that context I'd recommend books by (Anglican) Paul F, Bradshaw especially Two Ways of Praying, (Baptist) James F. White is another useful author especially his Documents of Christian Worship. The publications of Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies are usually worth reading. Don E. Saliers' (Wesleyan) Worship as Theology: Foretaste of Glory Divine is a decent read but my bent is more towards (Russian Orthodox) Alexander Schmemann's Introduction to Liturgical Theology which is a classic in the Orthodox tradition. In the West the foundational book on which nearly everything relies is (Anglican) Dom Gregory Dix's The Shape of Liturgy which is in Logos. I can't imagine anyone serious about worship who hasn't read Dix. And of course the books by (Lutheran) Gordon W. Lathrop previously mentioned.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
The Spirit of the Liturgy (Catholic) - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
The Feast of Faith: Approaches to a Theology of the Liturgy (Catholic) - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
Introduction to Liturgical Theology (Orthodox) - Father Alexander Schmemann (mentioned above by MJ but worth another mention)
“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara
Marva J. Dawn, "Reaching Out without Dumbing Down" - A theology of Worship for this Urgent Time.
Available on Logos as "Eerdmans Marva J. Dawn Collection (11 vols.)"
https://www.logos.com/product/43953/eerdmans-marva-j-dawn-collection#001
Not in Logos yet, but this book won Christianity Today's 2015 Book Awards under Biblical Studies
For the Glory of God: Recovering a Biblical Theology of Worship
Do check out the table-of-contents, so you know what you're buying. I personally love it.