Normative principle of worship

The normative principle of worship is a Christian theological principle that teaches that worship in the Church can include those elements that are not prohibited by Scripture.

See also

• Regulative principle of worship

Further reading

• Luoma, John Kenneth Reynold (1974). The primitive church as a normative principle in the theology of the sixteenth century: the Anglican-Puritan debate over church polity as represented by Richard Hooker and Thomas Cartwright (Thesis). Hartford Seminary Foundation. OCLC 4175378. 
• Beker, J. Christiaan (1992). "The Authority of Scripture: Normative or Incidental?". Theology Today 49 (3): 376–82. doi:10.1177/004057369204900309. 
• Graves, Garry D. (2008). The resurgence of Puritan regulative worship (Dissertation). Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary. ISBN 978-0-549-98292-0. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=1667031581&Fmt=7&clientId=79356&RQT=309&VName=PQD. 
• Driscoll, Mark (2009). "The Normative Principle". Religion Saves: And Nine Other Misconceptions. Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway Books. pp. 250–2. ISBN 978-1-4335-0616-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=Ny4cHkl9NZsC&pg=PA250. 
• Marshall, I. Howard (2004). "Two Approaches to Worship". Beyond the Bible: moving from scripture to theology. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House. pp. 40–2. ISBN 978-0-8010-2775-8. http://books.google.com/books?id=m6iY-Nc9Q5UC&pg=PA40. 
• Davies, Horton (1997). The Worship of the English Puritans. Morgan, PA: Soli Deo Gloria Publications. ISBN 978-1-57358-043-4.