num_pages: 97
description: We hear all to often that someone has decided to leave the Evangelical Christian faith and to join the Church of Rome or Eastern Orthodoxy or High Anglicanism. The lure is liturgy and tradition and since the Evangelical and Reformed churches so often have such poor worship it is not hard to understand the pull exercised by those churches that have a heritage of formality sobriety and beauty. This cure however is far worse than the disease. The answer to the weaknesses of Evangelicalism is not a turn toward the fallacies and errors of Rome Orthodoxy and Anglo-Catholicism but a return to Biblical patterns of worship. Just as there is true and false doctrine so there are true and false worship patterns. In this book James B. Jordan sorts out the true and the false in the area of worship practice discussing the cult of the saints the veneration of icons apostolic succession virginity and celibacy the presence of Christ at His Supper and the doctrine of tradition.
language: English
title: The Liturgy Trap: The Bible versus Mere Tradition in Worship
publisher: Athanasius Press