Our weekly gatherings-whether small or large, beautiful or forgettable-are meant to be a sweet foretaste of the heavenly worship we will one day experience for ages unending.Ģ. We too should be earnest and uncompromising in our devotion to God. We too should direct all our attention to the throne. The grand scenes of heavenly worship in Revelation are both present and future.

Corporate worship is meant to be an anticipation of the heavenly gathering of God’s people. He is the most important audience at every service. Glory to God – Worship is ultimately for Him. Please consult the numerous appendices to see many of these points spelled out in further detail.ġ. Rather, it is meant to provide a brief summary of the most important principles undergirding our theology and philosophy of worship. The list below is far from comprehensive or complete. It is with that supreme goal in mind that our church holds to a number of values when it comes to corporate worship. To gather with God’s people on the Lord’s Day to worship at God’s throne under the authority of God’s word is our solemn duty and joyful privilege. We want our corporate worship on Sunday to inspire and instruct our all-of-life worship Monday through Saturday. In particular, we want our worship services on Sunday to be pleasing to Him. He is worthy to receive glory and honor and power (Rev. At University Reformed Church we want all of life to be worship to God (Rom. The only question is whether we will worship the right One in the right way. Philosophical Transactions 7: 5160–5170.There is nothing more important in life than worship. John Wallis to the publisher concerning the suspension of quick silver well purged of air, much higher than the ordinary standard in the Torricellian experiment. In The Cambridge companion to ancient scepticism. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press. Description of a well, and earth in Lanchashire, taking fire by a candle approached to it. Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the experimental life. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 43: 82–90. From Bacon to banks: The vision and realities of pursuing science for the common good. The diffident naturalist: Robert Boyle and the philosophy of experiment. Preface to Francis Bacon’s Sylva sylvarum: A natural historie. The Routledge companion to philosophy of science. Psillos, Stathis, and Martin Curd (eds.). The history of skepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle. Park, Katharine, and Lorraine Daston (eds.). Solomon’s child: Method in the early Royal Society of London. Some observation and experiments made, and in a letter communicated to the publisher. A description of certain stones figured like plants, and by some observing men esteemed to be plants petrified. The art of experimental natural history: Francis Bacon in context. Establish the New science: The experience of the early Royal Society. Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd, 103–114. In The Routledge companion to philosophy of science, ed. Isaac Newton’s scientific method: Turning data into evidence about gravity and cosmology. A theory of the variation of the magnetical compass. Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd, 115–128. Lecture given to the Royal Society, London 12 April. Experimental misunderstandings: The precedent of Francis Bacon’s “Sylva Sylvarum” and the beginnings of the Royal Society. Katharine Park and Lorraine Daston, 106–131. Totius in Verba: Rhetoric and authority in the early royal society. Chicago: Chicago University Press.ĭear, Peter. Regimens of the mind: Boyle, Locke, and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition. Presentation at The UWO-CUNY Locke Workshop, London, Ontario May 1.Ĭorneau, Sorana. Locke and the methodology of Newton’s Principia. Philosophical Transactions 11: 724–742.Ĭonnolly, Patrick. John Beaumont junior of Stony-Easton in Somerset-Shire, concerning rock-plants and their growth. London: University of Minnesota Press.īeaumont, John. Intellectual History Review 22: 499–518.īacon, Francis. The origins of early modern experimental philosophy. Early Science and Medicine 13: 83–126.Īnstey, Peter, and Alberto Vanzo. Robert Boyle’s “designe about natural history”.

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