Beginning with a study of the theology, institutions, and practice of worship in Scripture, this course explores the ways in which biblical models can inspire worship renewal today. The biblical foundations topics include:

• Biblical worship and its theological foundations
• The practice of worship as reported in the Old and New Testaments
• The relationship between spirituality and corporate worship
• The concepts of sacred time and sacred space
• The Psalms in Hebrew and Christian worship
• The Hebrew roots of Christian worship

The historical side of the course surveys Christian worship through the centuries in both the Eastern and Western Churches and historical shifts in how Christian people have understood God, the church, salvation, and the church-culture intersection with respect to worship.