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  • Strange Lyre: Conclusion September 28, 2021David de Bruyn
    This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Strange Lyre: The Pentecostalization of Christian Worship You can read more posts from the series by using the Contents in the right sidebar.A good theologian once drew me a diagram of the progress of Christian doctrine and Christian history from the apostles to our day. ...
  • Cessmaticism: The Strange Hybrid of Contemporary Christian Worship September 21, 2021David de Bruyn
    This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series Strange Lyre: The Pentecostalization of Christian Worship You can read more posts from the series by using the Contents in the right sidebar.We began this series by making the claim that Pentecostalism has quietly (or not so quietly) colonised Protestant worship, even in those churches ...
  • Strange Lyre: Nothing But Feelings September 14, 2021David de Bruyn
    This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series Strange Lyre: The Pentecostalization of Christian Worship You can read more posts from the series by using the Contents in the right sidebar.Pentecostal worship places great emphasis on intensity. By intensity, they mean a strongly felt experience of emotion, intimacy, joy, wonder, or happiness. Indeed, ...
  • The Idols of Intensity and Extemporaneity September 7, 2021David de Bruyn
    This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series Strange Lyre: The Pentecostalization of Christian Worship You can read more posts from the series by using the Contents in the right sidebar.A polarized debate goes on between different stripes of Christians over the place of experience in Christianity. One side asserts that experiential faith ...
  • Pentecostal “Praise and Worship”: A Radical Departure from Historic Worship August 31, 2021David de Bruyn
    This entry is part 3 of 7 in the series Strange Lyre: The Pentecostalization of Christian Worship You can read more posts from the series by using the Contents in the right sidebar.Christian worship has often had a remarkably similar shape across traditions. Bryan Chapell showed in his work Christ-Centered Worship that corporate worship (sans ...
  • Strange Lyre: The Pentecostalization of Christian Worship August 17, 2021David de Bruyn
    This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series Strange Lyre: The Pentecostalization of Christian Worship You can read more posts from the series by using the Contents in the right sidebar.It’s hardly disputable that global Christianity has been overwhelmed and colonized by the Pentecostal and charismatic movements. After Roman Catholicism, the Christianity identified ...
  • Imagination, Illumination and Faith: a Proposed Connection June 8, 2021David de Bruyn
    This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series Christian Imagination You can read more posts from the series by using the Contents in the right sidebar.We have already showed the importance of imagination for shaping on overall Christian outlook and sensibility. Still, for many Christians these things seem abstract and somewhat arcane. But ...
  • Discerning the Christian Imagination: Consensus and Canonicity June 1, 2021David de Bruyn
    This entry is part 8 of 9 in the series Christian Imagination You can read more posts from the series by using the Contents in the right sidebar.Determining if a poem, hymn, musical piece, novel, devotional work, painting or other work should be considered a helpful work of Christian imagination is mostly an act of ...
  • Discerning the Christian Imagination: Analogies and Proportion May 25, 2021David de Bruyn
    This entry is part 7 of 9 in the series Christian Imagination You can read more posts from the series by using the Contents in the right sidebar.If Christians should grow in their ability to discern superior Christian works of imagination, how should they do this? Must every Christian pursue some kind of music appreciation, ...
  • Shapers of Christian Imagination May 11, 2021David de Bruyn
    This entry is part 6 of 9 in the series Christian Imagination You can read more posts from the series by using the Contents in the right sidebar.How is Christian imagination shaped? A true but not very helpful answer would be to say, “everything shapes imagination”. Visits to the doctor, watering the garden, schoolwork, housework, ...