Block, Daniel, I. For the Glory of God: Recovering A Biblical Theology of Worship. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2014. 410 pp. $24.99
Biographical Sketch of the Author
Daniel Block is a professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College and continues to travel around the world on the subject of worship. Author of fifteen books including many published articles and essays. This book, For the Glory of God: Recovering a Biblical Theology of Worship, is Blocks newest publication which is solely based on the worship of todays’ churches. In a recent interviews with Books at a Glance, Block states that he is concerned about the faulty understanding of worship and the utter pragmatism that drives much of the “worship industry” today. One hand you have “music as worship” and on the other …show more content…
Summary of Contents
Chapter one brings to attention and challenges the reader toward a holistic, biblical understanding in worship. The author gives information on John Piper in a sermon titled “Worship God!” to show how Scripture can be misinterpreted. The author expresses the need to study the First Testament to understand what true worship even for the believer, what worship should look like. He continues to show great strength in his writing to state:
Unless the New Testament expressly declares First Testament notions obsolete, they continue.” (7)
Additionally, Block expresses this with biblical terms dividing the Dimensions of Biblical Worship into three categories based on the terms: 1. Dispositional expressions (worship as attitude), 2. Physical expressions (worship as gesture), and 3. Liturgical expressions (worship as ritual). The author shows great strength in his view that the church and the studies of Testaments and how each relate to one another, but must start with the First Testament and not simply push towards the New Testament so
Biographical Sketch of the Author
Daniel Block is a professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College and continues to travel around the world on the subject of worship. Author of fifteen books including many published articles and essays. This book, For the Glory of God: Recovering a Biblical Theology of Worship, is Blocks newest publication which is solely based on the worship of todays’ churches. In a recent interviews with Books at a Glance, Block states that he is concerned about the faulty understanding of worship and the utter pragmatism that drives much of the “worship industry” today. One hand you have “music as worship” and on the other …show more content…
Summary of Contents
Chapter one brings to attention and challenges the reader toward a holistic, biblical understanding in worship. The author gives information on John Piper in a sermon titled “Worship God!” to show how Scripture can be misinterpreted. The author expresses the need to study the First Testament to understand what true worship even for the believer, what worship should look like. He continues to show great strength in his writing to state:
Unless the New Testament expressly declares First Testament notions obsolete, they continue.” (7)
Additionally, Block expresses this with biblical terms dividing the Dimensions of Biblical Worship into three categories based on the terms: 1. Dispositional expressions (worship as attitude), 2. Physical expressions (worship as gesture), and 3. Liturgical expressions (worship as ritual). The author shows great strength in his view that the church and the studies of Testaments and how each relate to one another, but must start with the First Testament and not simply push towards the New Testament so