Engaging with God : A Biblical Theology of Worship

Name: Engaging with God : A Biblical Theology of Worship
Brand: InterVarsity Press
SKU: 26971
Price: 28.60 USD
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Author: David Peterson
ISBN: 9780830826971

By: David Peterson

InterVarsity Press / 2002 / Paperback

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How should Christians worship? Ask three believers and you'll get four different answers! In this scholarly examination, David Peterson conducts a careful exegesis of the Old and New Testaments in search of a purely biblical model for Engaging with God. Discover how God's people are meant to praise and interact with our Creator . . . on his terms, and in a way he alone makes possible. 317 pages, softcover, InterVarsity.

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Title: Engaging with God : A Biblical Theology of Worship
By: David Peterson
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 317
Vendor: InterVarsity Press
Publication Date: 2002

Dimensions: 9 X 6 X 0.93 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound
ISBN: 0830826971
ISBN-13: 9780830826971
Stock No: WW26971

Publisher's Description

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Worship is of immense concern in the church and ironically the source of controversy and dispute. Can we get behind the question of what style of worship we should engage in to understand the bedrock foundation for God's people--honoring him as he desires? Is the dissatisfaction with worship voiced by so many perhaps a result of our having wandered from biblical teaching on the subject? Through careful exegesis in both Old and New Testaments, David Peterson unveils the total life-orientation of worship that is found in Scripture. Rather than determining for ourselves how we should worship, we, his people, are called to engage with God on the terms he proposes and in the way he alone makes possible. This book calls for a radical rethinking of the meaning and practice of worship, especially by those responsible for leading congregations. Here is the starting place for recovering the richness of biblical worship.

Author Bio

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I. Howard Marshall (1934–2015) was a world-renowned New Testament scholar and the author or editor of dozens of books. He taught New Testament at the University of Aberdeen for thirty-five years and was a professor emeritus for sixteen years.

David G. Peterson is an emeritus faculty member at Moore Theological College in Sydney, where he still teaches part-time. He served as principal of Oak Hill College, London, from 1996 to 2007. His books include The Acts of the Apostles (PNTC), Romans (EBTC), Engaging with God, Possessed by God, Transformed by God, and Hebrews and Perfection.

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"Peterson has researched 160 books in preparation for this project, which speaks to his thoroughness. My guess is that he found every instance of worship in the Bible. Recommend this book to your pastor, worship leaders, and Bible teachers; but warn them that it is deep reading. Each chapter concludes with a summary in laymen's terminology, which helps make it more readable."

"The author cuts back through the undergrowth of our inherited traditions to the clarity and straightforwardness of the biblical teaching. . . . Despite the scholarship behind it, all this is done with a beautiful simplicity and clarity that makes the book readily available to a wide circle of readers."

Another first-rate example of Peterson's careful exegesis and gospel-centered hermeneutic.