Story-Shaped Worship

What is the right way to worship?Right worship does not require a return to the identical forms found in the early church or later in Rome or after that in Westminster. What it calls for is a faithful response today to the God of our salvation inlight of those biblically ordered and historically informed patterns.In this study Robbie Castleman uncovers the fundamental shape of worship. What she finds—outlined in Scripture, enacted in Israel, refocused in the New Testament community, guardedby the apostolic fathers, and recovered in the Reformation—is a grand narrative of redemption offering order and meaning to all worshiping communities down to the present day.

Robbie F. Castleman is Professor Emerita at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, where she taught biblical studies and theology for 17 years. She previously served as a staff member with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Florida State University for 15 years. She has written a number of Bible Study guides and books including Parenting in the Pew, Story-Shaped Worship, Essentials of the New Testament, and Interpreting the God-Breathed Word.