It’s almost ten years since work began in earnest on the Synod’s latest hymnal, Lutheran Service Book. Among the many big issues that we knew would challenge us was the matter of language. What style of language would we use? An older style? An updated style? Something in between?
Just 18 months after we began, the [...]
The Church gives thanks for the life and work of Rev. Jaroslav Vajda, who died in the Lord last Saturday, May 10. Vajda’s work as hymnwriter is known throughout The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (and beyond). Of his more than 200 hymns (original and translated), the following are found in Lutheran Service Book:
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Concordia Theological Seminary’s Good Shepherd Institute of Pastoral Theology and Sacred Music announces the release of an 80-minute DVD with Dolby Surround Stereo called: Singing the Faith-Living the Lutheran Musical Heritage. This is a four-week study that tells the history of Lutheran congregational song and is viewable in four 20-minute segments [...]
Tagged CPH, Good Shepherd Insititute, Lutheran Hymnody, worshipAnthony Esolen has done it again. His latest blog post is on how the world has lost its soul, its culture, because it has lost in its music any resemblance or building up on the music of the past. Esolen defines culture as that which you have when “you cultivate those beliefs, customs, celebrations, and [...]
Tagged Anthony Esolen, culture, Touchstone, traditionPastor Alms at Incarnatus Est has an insightful post on the temptation for church historians to romanticize the past. He successfully disarms such notions through an enlightening quotation from Robert Taft’s book Through Their Own eyes : Liturgy as the Byzantines Saw It. In this particular quotation, Taft describes not the liturgical theology of the [...]
Tagged Byzantine liturgy, Incarnatus Est, Paul Gregory Alms, Robert TaftHere is a blog post worth a serious read. And I mean, read it and consider how it speaks to you. Much of the stagnation of thought and practice, which in all reality is a decline, is due to the things that Esolen brings to light in his blog post. [...]
Tagged aesthetics, CTS, LCMS, Music, religion, worship
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