Description:
What does "gospel-centered" worship look like for today's church? Scholar, worship leader, and songwriter Zac Hicks contends that this idea can be found in Thomas Cranmer's theology of worship, which was shaped by the Protestant principle of justification by faith alone and reflected in his 1552 edition of the Book of Common Prayer.
Review Quotes:
"In an era obsessed with questions of worship style or the worshiper's positive experience, Zac Hicks's study of Thomas Cranmer reminds us that the more critical issue is how worship proclaims and participates in the gospel of Jesus Christ. I havelong been concerned that much of the worship in this contemporary era has been ashamed of this gospel, not by overt rejection but by a more subtle--and equally disastrous--omission. Worship by Faith Alone through Cranmer's historical example shows how to avoid this drastic error."
--Lester Ruth, research professor of Christian worship at Duke Divinity School