The Development of Christian Worship According to Crichton (1992 found in Jones et al.:1997) worship is a 'religious phenomenon, a reaching out through the fear that always accompanies the sacred to the mysterium conceived as tremendous but also fascinates, because behind it and in it there is an intuition of the Transcendent.' (Crichton:1992 in Jones et al:1997:2) There are several approaches to which the subject of worship can be studied. This can be that
part of the Protestant religion. Since some Methodist wanted to return to Wesley’s teachings and sanctification, the holiness movement arose. However, as time passed the worship patterns in the holiness churches (i.e., speaking in tongues, miracles of healing etc.) ceased. Consequently, in 1906 the holiness style of worship was revived in a movement that was started by Pastor William J. Seymour. According to Justo L. Gonzalez, “William Seymour was a former slave who was influenced by a Pentecostal
‘little’ traditions were actually introduced and elaborated in the 1950s by the University of Chicago anthropologist †Robert Redfield. In Redfield’s vision: The studies of the anthropologist are contextual; they relate some element of the great tradition—sacred book, story-element, teacher, ceremony, or supernatural being—to the life of the ordinary people, in the context of daily life as the anthropologist sees it happen’ (1956). An important early contribution to the study of great and little traditions
religion profoundly colorful and vivid so that the Biblical stories and memories come to life through the village and its people. There is a resonating deep understanding by the community that their morality is steeped in their traditions and ancestral worship. The people understand that everything comes from and flows from God and that the ancestors (also referred to as the living-dead) have a vital part in- not just their individual development but to move further as a community. In African Traditional
associated with the pilgrimage in God’s call for his people to follow him to the Holy Land. The Muslim journey will be dealt with following the Christian journey, however, in both Islam and Christianity there is a ‘pull’ that came to be associated with the sacred places. St. Jerome’s account of the travels of Paula, a noblewoman from Rome, captures the powerful pull pilgrims describe. With a zeal and courage unbelievable in a woman she forgot her sex and her physical weakness, and longed to make there
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