Liturgics

Books

Beginner 

Ronald P. Byars - The Future of Protestant Worship: Beyond the Worship Wars (2002).  A good introduction to thinking about liturgy, full of first-hand experience and historical examples.  Most importantly, Byars refuses to accept the labels, ‘traditonal’ vs. ‘contemporary’ and forces us to think deeper about the issues.

Robert Godfrey - Pleasing God in Our Worship (1999). For the baby liturgist. In not even 50 pages, Godfrey presents the basics of Reformed worship.

Rev. Gregg Strawbridge - Worship & Worship Services

D.G. Hart & John R. Muether - With Reverence and Awe: Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship (2002). 

Intermediate

Michael Horton - A Better Way: Rediscovering the Drama of God-Centered Worship (2002). 

Peter J. Leithart - Against Christianity (2003).  Every minister should read this, if only to look at their tradition from a different point of view.

Jeffrey J. Meyers - The Lord’s Service: The Grace of Covenant Renewal Worship (2003).

Howard L. Rice and James C. Huffstutler - Reformed Worship (2001).  Written by a pastor and a seminary professor, both coming from a liberal Presbyterian point of view, it has wonderful history, but questionable application. 

Advanced

Aidan Kavanagh - On Liturgical Theology (1984, 1992)  [Orthodox]

Geoffrey Wainwright - Doxology: The Praise of God in Worship, Doctrine, and Life (1980).  A liturgical systematic theology. [Methodist]

Articles

Michael Horton - A Defense of Reformed Liturgy

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