Two significant things happened in the early 1990s as far as helping to stir up more interest in the RPW, the 1990 Psalmody Conference, and the 1992 book,
Worship in the Presence of God.
From "The Regulative Principle of Worship: Sixty Years in Reformed Literature, Part One (1946-1999),"
The Confessional Presbyterian (2005) 137; 164. Overview: 1990–1999
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In 1992, more than a decade’s worth of labor came to fruition with the publication of Worship in the Presence of God: A collection of essays on the nature, elements, and historic views and practice of worship.129 Edited by a Presbyterian Church in America pastor (Frank J. Smith) and ruling elder (David C. Lachman), the volume was designed as the first treatment in the twentieth century of all of the elements of worship from the traditional Presbyterian and Reformed perspective.
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This decade began with an important marker for interest in the regulative principle of worship with the holding of the 1990 Psalmody Conference. In the 1990s, discussion of the Scriptural rule of worship became more fashionable, indeed unavoidable within mainstream conservative Presbyterianism, with a resulting growth in the amount of literature, both pro and con. The publication of Worship in the Presence of God signaled a significant increase of interest in the doctrine, a fact borne out as well by the severity of criticism it received from those opposed to the principle.
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