Essays: The Conviction of Things Not Seen

Joyce Borger

Todd E. Johnson, ed. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2002. 240 pp. $22.99. ISBN 1587430320. www.bakerbooks.com

For this collection of essays written in honor of Robert Webber, editor Todd E. Johnson has gathered a group of liturgical scholars who have been influenced and inspired by Webber’s teaching. The result is twelve essays from various perspectives that both inform and challenge continued worship discussion. Topics include the practical, such as the balance between tradition and innovation, style, visual arts, and pastoral care, and the more scholastic such as developing a taxonomy of worship, origins of the seeker movement, the catechumenate, and an evaluation of seminary education in the postmodern context.

Rev. Joyce Borger is a program manager at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship for the area of practical worship planning and leading, which includes co-managing ReformedWorship.org, as well as serving as a content editor and resource creator for the website. Joyce is keen to listen to the questions being asked by churches and then identify, learn from, and amplify wise and gifted voices who can speak to them, as well as create platforms for gifts and learning to be shared. She has worked in the area of worship for over 20 years and has served as editor of several musical collections, including Psalms for All Seasons, and Lift Up Your Hearts: Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs (Faith Alive Christian Resources, 2011, 2013). She has taught worship courses at Kuyper College and is an ordained minister.