This book is a tried-and-tested, straightforward, readable introduction to worship in the first four centuries of the church's existence. It describes what Christians actually did, but also explain…
Hurtado focuses on two distinguishing characteristics of earliest Christian worship: its exclusivity (rejecting the worship of other deities) and its "binitarian" shape (the veneration of Christ al…
Worship is recollection and summary of the power from God that enables the Church. Christian worship is not unspecified and generalized adoration; it is absolutely specific and clearly pointed. Her…