I read this book hoping for, as the subtitle puts it, a "Case for Liturgy in the Reformed Tradition," but was fairly disappointed. It's actually a collection of Hart's essays (a somewhat poorly edited collection at that) in which he lets loose on American popular evangelicalism and ways he believes that conservative Presbyterianism has sold out to it. I agreed with quite a few of his critiques but was so turned off by his polemical tone in advancing them that I had trouble getting th More...

[2006, 2007, 2008:] been working my way through this collection of essays off and on for some time. subtitled /the case for liturgy in the reformed tradition,/ hart points out in the introduction that his emphasis is on 'reformed,' noting that all worship has its liturgy, but that he is interested in making a case for liturgy that is reformed. very solid set of essays. the essays are collected under the following five sections: the church's commission, contemporary worship, office and ordinan More...