Common worship
Abstract
People of faith, particularly in the Judeo-Christian tradition, worship corporately at least as often, if not more so, than they do individually. Why do they do this? There are, of course, many reasons, some having to do with personal preference and others having to do with the theology of worship. But, in this paper, we explore one reason, a philosophical reason, which, despite recent work on the philosophy of liturgy, has gone underappreciated. In particular, we argue that corporate worship enables a person to come to know God better than they would otherwise know him in individual worship.
Citation
Cockayne , J & Efird , D 2018 , ' Common worship ' , Faith and Philosophy , vol. 35 , no. 3 , pp. 299-325 . https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil2018611103
Publication
Faith and Philosophy
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0739-7046Type
Journal article
Rights
© 2018 Society of Christian Philosophers. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil2018611103
Description
Joshua Cockayne thanks the Templeton Religion Trust for their generous funding during the writing of this article.Collections
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