Theology of Worship – Notes Days 2 & 3

Technically, I’m a day behind. If you’re upset about that, you can leave now.

I’ll wait.

Okay. For the rest of you, I said I’d be posting my notes from each day of this class. If you’re new to the fun, I’m taking a theology of worship course at Heritage Seminary this week. Five days, six hours of lecture a day. Start in Genesis and work all the way up to how worship is expressed in the modern church. Beautiful! I love thinking about and learning about this stuff so my mind is in overdrive all week.

The focus of the lectures yesterday and today has been on the worship practice throughout the Old Testament, specifically looking at the unique characteristics and distinctives of worship in the priestly, prophetic and wisdom books. Some interesting patterns show up and Dr. Barker is so familiar with the text  that he is able to bring out so much of the continuity that exists within the three voices.

Anyone still here? Hello?? Yeah. Some of you (one of you?) might find this interesting so I’m offering to post my notes from the course.

Here’s a link to my notes from day one – http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddnf597s_74dsbdf8fh
Here’s a link to my notes from day two – http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddnf597s_757ncsf9fj
Here’s a link to my notes from day three – http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddnf597s_76gdg72qcz

Let me say something here that I didn’t say when I posted the notes from the first day. These are my notes – this is NOT the content of the course. If it appears like I’ve written something which is heretical, that’s probably my fault. If, in fact, I have actually written something which is heretical, that’s probably Dr. Barker’s fault :)

If you actually read through the notes from Tuesday you’ll see that they end halfway through a lecture. The notes from that lecture are picked up at the beginning of day three.

Any thoughts on this stuff?