the Triune God as the Causative agency of our responsive worship Ngien, Dennis creator text xxu Milton Keynes, England Paternoster c2008 monographic eng

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xiv, 182 p. ; 23 cm. This book seeks an analysis of the theo-logic of worship in five major Christian thinkers: Basil of Caearea, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, Martin Luther, and John Calvin. Dennis Ngien. CONTENTS: 1. The Spirit "Worshipped and Glorified" as the perfecting cause of our worship in Basil of Caesarea's De Spiritu Sancto -- 2. The necessary reason for worship: on praising the superlative deity in St. Anselm's Proslogion -- 3. Participation in the constitutive kiss: worship in Bernard of Clairvaux's Song of Songs -- 4. Worship as radical reversal in Martin Luther's Theologia Crucis -- 5. The Trinitarian dynamic of worship in John Calvin's Institutes (1559). Trinity Worship BT111.3 .N55 2008 9781842276105 1842276107 130403 20160607105457.0