Church at Church: Jean-Jacques Von Allmen's Liturgical Ecclesiology Rienstra Ronald Andrew

Consider: The church both learns and becomes what it truly is when it gathers to worship. By doing so, the church offers the world both a stern warning and a hopeful promise. Worship tells the story of God's salvation history and invites God's people into it.

Yet his work is largely and lamentably unknown to most worship leaders. These are three of the key insights that animated the work of Jean-Jacques von Allmen, a Swiss Reformed pastor and professor who is among the most admired liturgical theologians of the twentieth century. In this book, Ron Rienstra provides an introduction to this important thinker.

He offers methodological and biographical context and then explores von Allmen's most generative insights concerning the church as it engages in its most foundational activity: worship. Viewed through the lens of the Nicene marks, Rienstra's exploration yields the outlines of a