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Making Room at the Table: An Invitation to Multicultural Worship
Edited by Brian K. Blount and Leonora Tubbs Tisdale
Louisville, Westminster John Knox, 2000. 188 pp. $17.95.
Editors Tisdale and Blount are to be commended for assembling representatives from among their Princeton Theological Seminary colleagues to participate in this third book of a series designed to examine current issues confronting the churches. Here, in essays written under the general categories of biblical hermeneutics, theology and ethics, and practical theology, twelve authors address the topic of worship and culture, taking up a broad definition of culture as the "social, linguistic, national, ethnic, and theological realities that locate and identify who we are and what we believe and value." Using the tools of their particular academic disciplines, the contributors expose the complexity and necessity of "multicultural" worship in order to encourage dialogue that may bring a truce to the various "worship wars" found in many churches today. One hopes that the important...