Worship today : understanding, practice, ecumenical implications / edited by Thomas F. Best and Dagmar Heller.

Includes bibliographical references.

Worship in the Armenian Orthodox Church / Nareg Alemezian -- Worship in the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch / Mor Cyril Aphrem Karim -- The liturgy in the Coptic Orthodox Church / Michael Ghattas -- Worship, rituals, and liturgy in Orthodox tradition: insights from practice and theology / Dimitrios C. Passakos -- The Roman Catholic understanding of the nature and purpose of worship / Patrick Lyons -- Worship in the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar / Abraham Kuruvilla -- Worship in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany / Hans H. Krech -- Worship in the Church of Scotland / Peter Donald -- Anglican worship : an evolution from imperialism to ecumenism / David R. Holeton -- Worship in the Mennonite tradition in Germany / Corinna Schmidt -- Baptist worship in ecumenical perspective / Nathan Nettleton -- Worship in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) / Janet Scott -- The nature and purpose of worship : a Church of the Brethren perspective / Jeff Carter -- Worship from the United Methodist [USA] perspective / Lawrence Hull Stookey -- "Under our own vine and fig tree" : Sunday morning worship in the African Methodist Episcopal Church / Vinton R. Anderson -- Worship as understood and practised by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) / Keith Watkins -- Liturgical renewal in the Old Catholic Church : its basis, progress and purpose / Sigisbert Kraft -- Variations on themes in worship : Pentecostal rites and improvisations / Daniel Albrecht -- Worship and unity in the Church of South India / M. Thomas Thangaraj -- A Seventh-day Adventist perspective on worship / Denis Fortin -- Worship within the Salvation Army / Earl Robinson with the Salvation Army International Doctrine Council -- Worship and the state church: a Norwegian perspective / Øystein Bjørdal -- The nature and purpose of worship : a local South African Anglican perspective / Cynthia Botha -- The mosaic of Mennonite worship in North America / Rebecca Slough -- The Jamaican Baptist worship tradition / Burchel Taylor -- The nature and purpose of the worship service at Yoido Full Gospel Church / Young-Hoon Lee -- Christian worship from a feminist perspective / Gail Ramshaw -- The worship life of the Community of Grandchamp / the Community of Grandchamp -- The worship of Iona Community / Kathy Galloway -- Ecumenical worship : experiences, problems, possibilities : some basic considerations / Dagmar Heller -- Ecumenical prayer : an Orthodox perspective / Paul Meyendorff -- Seeds of hope : a reflection on accounts of worship from varied traditions / Ruth D. Duck -- Worship and the search for Christian unity : a response / Robert Gribben -- Christian perspectives on worship / Paul Meyendorff -- Leitourgia : the "work" of the people and the unity of God's people / Jim Puglisi -- Worship and ecumenism / Paul P.J. Sheppy.