This volume outlines a Christian theology that takes worship as its basic framework, as the occasion of not only an approach toward God in piety but also separation from God in sin. Drawing on Luther, Calvin, and especially Karl Barth, Matthew Myer Boulton builds a Reformed liturgical theology, maintaining that the God of Jesus Christ is a 'God against religion,' one who saves human beings from religion by entering it, transforming it, and ultimately ending it.
Matthew Myer Boulton is assistant professor of ministry studies at Harvard Divinity School. The author of numerous articles on Christian theology and worship, he is also co-editor of Doing Justice to Mercy: Religion, Law, and Criminal Justice.
