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On Baptism And The Spirit: The Ethical Significance Of The Marks Of The Church, Vigen Guroian
On Baptism And The Spirit: The Ethical Significance Of The Marks Of The Church, Vigen Guroian
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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As the church rounds the close of its second millennium, Christians must recapture the ecclesial and sacramental character of Christian ethics. They must see clearly once more that their ethics belongs to the mystery of the incarnation and the redemptive mission of the church. They must see afresh that their ethics issues directly from their adoption through baptism as sons and daughters of God.
Culture: Around, Against, In The Church's Worship, Marva J. Dawn
Culture: Around, Against, In The Church's Worship, Marva J. Dawn
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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Two weeks ago a Canadian Broadcasting producer in Montreal telephoned me. She had heard of my book, Reaching Out without Dumbing Down, from a few pastors and wanted to know the main points of my approach, because she was preparing a program for Easter to focus on what congregations could do to attract Canadians to worship.
Asking New And Old Questions As We Remember The Future, Marva J. Dawn
Asking New And Old Questions As We Remember The Future, Marva J. Dawn
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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Let me explain my title, "Asking New and Old Questions as We Remember the Future." Because my training is in biblical ethics, my approach to various worship concerns centers on asking questions (the proper work of ethics) about how our worship practices form us to be God's people. If we are interested at this conference in what our "eschatological tradition" has to say to issues of worship, then we will discover the more new questions we ask, the more they will drive us back to the old ones. Indeed, "there is nothing new under the sun." Always, throughout human …
Concluding Address: Culture And Worship, Once More, Marva J. Dawn
Concluding Address: Culture And Worship, Once More, Marva J. Dawn
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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The organizing principle I needed to pull together the events of this week became clear quite early in the institute. It became clear because of the great wisdom of the people who attended my discussion session after the opening keynote. They raised some critical issues and pulled many things into the dialectical tensions of which, for lack of time, I had been able to explicate only one side. In response, I found myself again and again saying, "This gets us back to the necessity for community, doesn't it?" All of the worship issues, especially the wars, arise because our …
What Are We Doing When We Pray?, Jorgen Moltmann
What Are We Doing When We Pray?, Jorgen Moltmann
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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My God, we cry out and complain we groan and weep we are speechless and silent. And we beg and implore, we wish and we will, we crave and insist. We thank and praise, we rejoice and dance, we sing and we glorify. These are all ways of expressing our lives before God. To call them all 'praying' is much too narrow, because the word 'pray' means much the same as 'ask' and 'plead'. But to come to God only with our entreaties is hardly the expression of a true love for God. God is more than our heavenly …
Liturgy And Ecumenism: What Next?, Eugene L. Brand
Liturgy And Ecumenism: What Next?, Eugene L. Brand
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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This year, 1998, marks the twentieth anniversary of the Lutheran Book of Worship (LBW) that we celebrate together with the fiftieth anniversary of the Institute of Liturgical Studies here at Valparaiso University. My personal debt to the institute goes back to 1956 when I persuaded my internship supervisor to allow me to attend the institute in Michigan. That meeting introduced me to some of the giants of the previous generation-Arthur Carl Piepkorn, Berthold von Schenk, AR. Kretzmann and M. Alfred Bichsel-and gave me a vision of what worship among Lutherans might be. Then, following my return from doctoral studies …
Liturgical Traffic In Culture: Gridlock, Beginning Drivers, Detours, And Dui, Mark P. Bangert
Liturgical Traffic In Culture: Gridlock, Beginning Drivers, Detours, And Dui, Mark P. Bangert
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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In the Sunday New York Times from March 16, 1997 a short piece with accompanying picture offered a report on a weekly liturgy at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, a liturgy which is very popular with young people. Entitled "The Faithful Are Casual at This Sunday Service," the article concerns a forty-year tradition of doing sung compline in a space which is almost totally dark except for about fifteen male singers, bedecked in cassock and surplice, who stand dimly lighted at portable choir desks. Young people hurry to the 9:30p.m. service to sit in the pews, lie prone …
It's About Time: Practices Of Rest And Worship In Church And Culture, Dorothy C. Bass
It's About Time: Practices Of Rest And Worship In Church And Culture, Dorothy C. Bass
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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At this institute on "Worship, Culture, and Catholicity: Remembering the Future" I may focus a little more on culture than have the other speakers, a choice perhaps appropriate for a church historian and student of American religious life. Let me begin, therefore, with a statement from an anthropologist: "Time talks," says Edward T. Hall in his book The Silent Language. "It speaks more plainly than words. The message it conveys comes through loud and clear. Because it is manipulated less consciously, it is subject to less distortion than the spoken language. It can shout the truth where words lie."
Holy Communion Is An Artifact Of The Future, Walter R. Bouman
Holy Communion Is An Artifact Of The Future, Walter R. Bouman
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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A bit of reminiscing seems appropriate on this anniversary occasion.2 The Institute of Liturgical Studies was founded by true pioneers in the liturgical movement. The blessings granted to that movement in terms of its achievements are awesome. I don't know if anyone counted such things in the 1940s, but in the decade in which the Institute of Liturgical Studies was founded there were not a hundred congregations in all of North American Lutheranism where there was a weekly Eucharist.
"Hearers Of The Word": Luke's Gospel As Sacramental Formation For A Liturgical Community, Arthur A. Just Jr.
"Hearers Of The Word": Luke's Gospel As Sacramental Formation For A Liturgical Community, Arthur A. Just Jr.
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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It is privilege to return to the Institute of Liturgical Studies after a long absence, especially on a subject that has consumed me in one way or another over the last fifteen years. I am very grateful to the advisory council for assigning me a topic that develops the biblical foundations of the catechumenate. My doctoral work on Emmaus, my vocation as professor of exegesis and pastoral theology, my participation in the ELCA and LCMS working groups on the catechumenate, as well as my participation in the Missouri Synod's efforts to develop its own catechumenal process, have all contributed …
Fonned And Refonned: What God Effects Through The Liturgical Assembly Of Christians, Paul R. Nelson
Fonned And Refonned: What God Effects Through The Liturgical Assembly Of Christians, Paul R. Nelson
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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It is a privilege to be invited to offer a "keynote" address to the Institute of Liturgical Studies, where so much serious reflection and energy for the renewal and study of Christian worship has been generated. As will become clear to you almost immediately, "keynote" today does not mean key in the sense of offering the key concept that is needed to unlock all subsequent deliberation on the important topic of forming Christians. In my case, "key" refers more frankly and realistically to the indispensable need to start somewhere by opening the door to subsequent work in the institute-with …
Transformed And Transforming: What God Effects Through The Presence Of Christians In The World, Paul R. Nelson
Transformed And Transforming: What God Effects Through The Presence Of Christians In The World, Paul R. Nelson
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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On the model of mystagogy: remember your experience last night at the vigil, please, and recall these words from the eucharistic prayer: God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, open our eyes to see your hand at work in the world about us. Deliver us from the presumption of coming to this table for solace only and not for strength; for pardon only and not for renewal. Let the grace of this Holy Communion make us one body, one spirit in Christ that we may worthily serve the world in his name.' And from Welcome to Christ: Dear …
You Have To Wear Something, Susan R. Briehl
You Have To Wear Something, Susan R. Briehl
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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I begin with scripture. Where else could one start when invited to speak about preaching and its power of formation in the lives of hearers? How else can preaching shape a people for the living of this particular and peculiar life to which Jesus calls us, except we tum to scripture, tell its stories, sing its songs, cry its laments, pray its prayers, enter its wisdom, and taste the life it bears? We have no other word to proclaim than the promise of God, the mystery of God's unfailing love for the world revealed and offered to us in …
Speaking Of Liturgy: Education And Fonnation Through And For Worship, Dorothy C. Bass
Speaking Of Liturgy: Education And Fonnation Through And For Worship, Dorothy C. Bass
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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On Palm Sunday eighteen days ago I paid a visit to the country of my youth. I was visiting my parents on the East Coast and so on that day I worshiped with them at their church, First Presbyterian. I've never belonged to that particular congregation, but the denominational ethos was familiar. Visiting my family of origin, I had reentered my denomination of origin as well.
Baptismal "Spirituality" In The Early Church And Its Implications For The Church Today, Maxwell E. Johnson
Baptismal "Spirituality" In The Early Church And Its Implications For The Church Today, Maxwell E. Johnson
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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Let me begin with two quotes from a recent collection of essays by British Methodist liturgical theologian Geoffrey Wainwright, both of which, I believe, speak to the overall theme of this year's liturgical institute. First, in an essay originally published in 1988, Wainwright says: "Without the heartbeat of the sacraments at its center, a church will lack confidence about the gospel message and about its own ability to proclaim that message in evangelism, to live it out in its own internal fellowship, and to embody it in service to the needy."1 And, second, in an essay appearing originally in …
The Freedom Of The Christian For Culture, Timothy Lull
The Freedom Of The Christian For Culture, Timothy Lull
Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers
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It is somewhat surprising for Timothy Lull to be invited to address a liturgical conference of any sort. I was talking to several of my colleagues at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary this week about what I would be saying, and one of them said, "Ah! Is Lull among the liturgists?" He seemed surprised These colleagues wondered if you knew, for example, that I describe myself as a recovering evangelical catholic, or if you would know that I have the reputation in my congregation as being "the great complainer" about matters like the length of service, the fact that we …