Files related to worship, polity, and discipline. The files collected here are the result of years of studying ecclesiology. I get frequent requests for some of the handouts I distributed when teaching Presbyterian Polity and Worship at Gordon-Conwell Seminary, but those files, while compiled and photocopied in one place for my students, were never collated into one document. Some of those, and a few others, will make there way here as I have time.
Ecclesiology: Worship, Polity, Discipline
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Bibliography on Presbyterian Worship and Polity |
This bibliography was prepared for my course on Presbyterian denominational standards at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and contains material on both polity and worship. |
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Confessional Subscriptioin |
This essay addresses the question of confessional subscription in terms of the issue of the nature of church power. |
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Foreward to God's Lyrics |
This is the Forward I wrote in Douglas O'Donnell's wonderful book, God's Lyrics: Rediscovering Worship Through Old Testament Songs (P&R, 2010). |
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Intelligibility, Accessibility and Familiarity in Worshp |
An essay in which I attempt to demonstrate that the Pauline requirement that worship be intelligible is no argument that it needs to be easily accessible or familiar. |
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Regulative Principle Handout |
This is a very brief summary of the ten basic arguments for the regulative principle of worship. |
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Why Not Exclusive Psalmody |
A discussion of how the Scriptures teach that God is to be praised for all his great works, not just those articulated in the Psalms. |