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Book Review: The Next Worship: Glorifying God in a Diverse World

Book Review: The Next Worship: Glorifying God in a Diverse World ATR/99.4 860 Anglican Theological Review The Next Worship: Glorifying God in a Diverse World. By Sandra Maria Van Opstal. Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Press, 2016. 224 pp. $18.00 (paper). At a recent meeting of clergy about an upcoming regional confirmation, it was noted that a request had come from diocesan staff to include a song in Spanish. The responses were a mixture of bemusement and skepticism: Why should we do this? Is this authentic to our (mostly Anglo) communities? Isn’t this just a token (hence condescending) nod to cultural diversity? Had the participants in the discussion read Sandra Van Opstal’s The Next Worship, the conversation might just have taken a different turn. Van Opstal is a second-generation Latina leading and teaching about multiethnic worship and working primarily in evangelical and free church communities. Her worship vocabulary may seem foreign to those from more liturgical traditions—“worship leader” is more likely to be a band leader in front of an auditorium of worshipers than a presider at a eucharistic table. But she has much to say to all of us who are seeking an authentic expression in our own communities of a more global, multicultural church. This is a book that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

Book Review: The Next Worship: Glorifying God in a Diverse World

Feyerherm, Elise A.
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 99 (4): 1 – Aug 25, 2021
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ATR/99.4 860 Anglican Theological Review The Next Worship: Glorifying God in a Diverse World. By Sandra Maria Van Opstal. Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Press, 2016. 224 pp. $18.00 (paper). At a recent meeting of clergy about an upcoming regional confirmation, it was noted that a request had come from diocesan staff to include a song in Spanish. The responses were a mixture of bemusement and skepticism: Why should we do this? Is this authentic to our (mostly Anglo) communities? Isn’t this just a token (hence condescending) nod to cultural diversity? Had the participants in the discussion read Sandra Van Opstal’s The Next Worship, the conversation might just have taken a different turn. Van Opstal is a second-generation Latina leading and teaching about multiethnic worship and working primarily in evangelical and free church communities. Her worship vocabulary may seem foreign to those from more liturgical traditions—“worship leader” is more likely to be a band leader in front of an auditorium of worshipers than a presider at a eucharistic table. But she has much to say to all of us who are seeking an authentic expression in our own communities of a more global, multicultural church. This is a book that

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