Introduction to Christian Worship: Fourth Edition Revised and Updated

James F. White

Dec 2023 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Asa Siegel

About this audiobook

James White's classic Christian worship text, revised and updated. This must-listen book for students of worship is now revised and updated for the first time in more than twenty years. Author Ed Phillips, one of White's graduate students, is joined by practitioners and teachers from emerging generations, who contribute timely and well-researched material from their own areas of expertise. This new content brings the original up to date, filling significant gaps since the original publication on topics like technology, arts, embodiment in and of worship, pluralism and multiculturalism, denominational changes, and changes in the spaces and forms of worship, including worship in the age of pandemics. This new edition is perfect for every student, pastor, and leader of Christian worship.

About the author

James F. White holds the Bard Thompson Chair of Liturgical Studies at Drew University. He previously taught at the Perkins School of Theology for twenty-two years and was professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame until 1999.

Asa Siegel is a classically trained actor with extensive professional stage experience. He is also a highly skilled voice actor across the spectrum, with work including audiobooks, narration, video games, animated television series, promos and trailers, and national television and radio commercials.

Ed Phillips is associate professor of worship and liturgical theology, at Candler School of Theology of Emory University. Dr. Phillips has interests in the practical and pastoral aspects of the historical church as a way to understand the development of Christian theology and practice for the present.