Textbooks Announced for Spring Graduate Seminar on Worship in the New Testament

I’ve just finalized the textbooks for my spring 2015 graduate course entitled “Worship in the New Testament.”  In addition to the texts below, we will be working through a selection of my own materials on the Greco-Roman and Jewish contexts for the worship practices of the earliest Christian communities.

Master’s students will be required to purchase and engage with the following texts:

• Barker, Margaret. Temple Themes in Christian Worship. London; New York: T & T Clark, 2007. ISBN: 978-0567032768.
• Hurtado, Larry W. At the Origins of Christian Worship: The Context and Character of Earliest Christian Devotion. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000. ISBN: 978-0-8028-4749-2.
• McGowan, Andrew Brian. Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspective. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2014. ISBN: 9780801031526.

In addition to the above texts, PhD students will be required to purchase and engage critically with the following:

• Bradshaw, Paul F. The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of Early Liturgy. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 978-0195217322.
• Hurtado, Larry W. Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003. ISBN: 978-0802831675.

Looking forward to an exciting semester of careful reading of the New Testament in its social and historical context as we consider what the New Testament and other early Christian writings have to tell us about the earliest Christian worship practices.