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Preaching and Worship

Recommended Resources: Preaching and Worship

Book of Common Worship. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2018.

Includes everything church leaders need for Sunday worship, the Christian year, the sacraments, and pastoral and occasional services, such as ordinations, weddings, wholeness services, and funerals.

Kurian, George Thomas, ed. The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2011.

A comprehensive reference work on the history and impact of Christianity. Over 1,400 entries provide an in-depth and dynamic look at Christianity both through its history and the way it has shaped societies around the world.

Lacoste, Jean-Yves, ed. Encyclopedia of Christian Theology.  New York: Routledge, 2017.

Provides a critical overview of the significant concepts, events, councils, theologians, philosophers, and movements in Christian theology.

Swain, Joseph P. Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.

Comprises over 800 cross-referenced entries on major types of music, composers, key religious figures, specialized positions, genres of composition, technical terms, instruments, fundamental documents and sources, significant places, and important musical compositions.

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church(4)

Louth, Andrew, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 4th edition. Oxford University Press, 2022.

Contains over 6,500 cross-referenced A-Z entries, and offers unrivaled coverage of all aspects of this vast and often complex subject, from theology; churches and denominations; patristic scholarship; and the bible; to the church calendar and its organization; popes; archbishops; other church leaders; saints; and mystics. 

Mannion, Gerard, and Lewis Seymour Mudge, eds. The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church. London: Routledge, 2008.

Introduces the fundamental historical, systematic, moral and ecclesiological aspects of the study of the church.