An outline of Christian worship - Gordon S. Wakefield

In succession to W. D. Maxwell's An Outline of Christian Worship (OUP, 1936), this is a new, comprehensive history of Christian worship from the New Testament to the present, drawing both on original sources and the work of modern scholars. All important developments are described and explained - from the earliest days to the Reformation and the Reformed tradition, English liturgy, Methodism, the reforms of the liturgical movement, the new ecumenical emphasis, common liturgical principles, and at the same time the contemporary sense of freedom and spontaneity in worship in, for example, the black churches. An indispensable work of study and reference.