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What's Hecuba To Him, Or He To Hecuba?, Paul W.F. Harms

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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My first attendance at this institute also marked the first of these Institutes. came to meet a musician classmate of mine. He was in a discussion with Edward Rechlin, the distinguished organist. As I came within earshot, Rechlin said to my classmate, "Is he a musician?" He said, "Oh, no! No! He's not a musician." "Perfectly normal then," Rechlin responded.

The Language Of The Psalter And Sunday Worship, Gail Ramshaw

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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Which words shall we use on Sunday morning? Shall we speak Aramaic or Greek, Latin or German, seventeenth-century British English or twenty first- century American English? Shall our scriptural translation be as literal as possible or as accessible as possible? Shall we concur with the editors of our denominational news magazines and employ a sixth grade vocabulary, or can we hope to engage the brains of also our learned members? Who decides which words we speak or sing: the organist, the pastor, a congregational committee, a national staff of liturgical experts, or an international theological bureaucracy? We are alive …

The Word Becomes Flesh, Louise Williams

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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Mrs. Gahr, my teacher for several years in the one-roomed country school I attended, always said a word is really yours when you have used it correctly in a sentence three times. There is a sense in which we can say the "living Word" becomes "ours" when we use it Using the living word, however, is not just putting nouns and verbs and other parts of speech together. Using the living word correctly is not even just rightly dividing law and gospel. Using the living word must also involve actions and deeds. One of the ways the church uses …

The Lda Today, Vol. 2, No. 2, Lutheran Deaconess Association

The LDA Today

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The Lda Today, Vol. 2, No. 1, Lutheran Deaconess Association

The LDA Today

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Doing The Holy Things: Baptism And Vocation, Gordon Lathrop

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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Thank you, David, and thank you all. I'm honored to come here once again. Honored really to stand with you and to thank you who in season and out of season have cared about setting out the holy things of God in the midst of the holy people so that the holy One might be encountered and known and proclaimed, and that is the task you have done, you at the heart of many others in the Lutheran churches of North America. You have done this, in season and out of season, and it's a task for which I …

Dying And Rising As We Grow Up: Lifelong Baptismal Formation, Elaine Ramshaw

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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In honor of David Truemper, who taught me the Lutheran Confessions, I want to begin with a quotation from the Large Catechism. Luther writes: Thus we see what a great and excellent thing baptism is, which snatches us from the jaws of the devil and makes God our own, overcomes and takes away sin and daily strengthens the new man, always remains until we pass from this present misery to eternal glory. Therefore let everybody regard his baptism as the daily garment which he is to wear all the time. Every day he should be found in faith and …

Christianity's Boundary-Making Bath: The New Testament Meaning Of Baptism, The Sacrament Of Unity, Edgar Krentz

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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Baptism puts us squarely into the significance of Easter, Christ, and the Christian life. When I spoke to you a year ago on the Lord's Supper in the New Testament, it was possible for me to deal at length with every passage in the New Testament that mentions the Lordly Meal. It is quite different with baptism. It is found frequently in New Testament texts-many of them. Indeed, one can say that baptism is more significant to the New Testament church than is the Lord's Supper. We can almost set up a proportion: Baptism is to the early church …

The Melody Of Living Water: Music Ministry And Holy Baptism, Jan Michael Joncas

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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And It came to pass, when Paul was at Corinth, he and certain disciples came upon a mob that was stoning an organist. And Paul said unto them, "What then hath he done unto thee that his head should be bruised?" And the people cried with one voice, "He hath played too loud. Yea, in the singing of psalms, he maketh our heads to ring as if they were beaten with hammers. Behold, he sitteth up high in the loft, and mighty are the pipes and mighty is the noise thereof, and though there be few of us below, …

Grace Upon Grace: Living Water, Hans Boehringer

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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Two months ago, on February 22, a Lutheran pastor and his wife, both faithful and fruitful servants of our Lord, began their personal celebration of "the feast of victory for our God." They now chant with the saints and all the heavenly host. "Worthy is Christ the Lamb who was slain, whose blood set us free to be people of God." It would only be just if the choir director had chosen that hymn of praise to be sung by the choir that day, because the two I speak of were the Rev. Herbert and Ruth Undemann. Pastor Undemann …

The Cost Of Making Disciples, Walter Huffman

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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"Christians," wrote Tertullian in the second century, "are made, not born." Fortunately, we have a description of how they were "made" from the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus.l Exposed to the gospel through lives of committed Christians, inquirers were questioned as to the seriousness of their intentions. Were they willing to change their lives and to renounce occupational patterns that were incompatible with the faith? Or, was the idolatry permeating their culture so pervasive that they were unable "to hear the word"? If these candidates were capable of making lifestyle corrections, they entered the catechumenate. For as long as three …

A Midrash On Water, Joseph A. Edelheit

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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Jews and Christians share a common foundation of Scripture. It is within this common, sacred text that we shall find the source of "Grace upon Grace: Living Water." It requires little religious imagination to link the use of water as a purification rite in the Biblical world to the use of the mikveh in the early rabbinic period, and ultimately to the transformative ritual of Baptism as an essential sacramental rite in Christianity. My task this evening is not to trace that course of ritual development, but rather to consider the many and varied texts of Scripture from within …

The Lda Today, Vol. 1, No. 2, Lutheran Deaconess Association

The LDA Today

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The Lda Today, Vol. 1, No. 1, Lutheran Deaconess Association

The LDA Today

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The Church Musician As Steward Of The Mysteries, Carl Schalk

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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It hardly comes as a surprise to most that in the midst of the confusion generated, on the one hand, by proponents of a rigid representation of worship practices or, on the other hand, by the downright liturgical silliness perpetuated by those determined to "sell" religion in the worst possible way, there is equal confusion as to the role of the musician in the life and worship of the church. Proponents on either side of this great divide have radically different understandings of the role of music in the church. And if there is little agreement on the role …

The Witness Of The Worshiping Community, Frank C. Senn

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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Christ is risen! Alleluia! CR: He is risen indeed! Alleluia!) What more does the church have to do than to proclaim this? What else must the church witness to than the resurrection of the crucified One, who is present in its midst through the preaching of the gospel and the administration of the sacraments? Oh, yes, we have to spin out the meaning of the cross and resurrection of Christ; we have to celebrate it worthily and compellingly in our public assemblies; we have to reorder our lives In conformity with its implications, turning away from the way of …

What Gets Changed? Sam Gets Changed?, Gabe Huck

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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Most of what I learn about ritual and liturgy and church I learn from places that aren't about ritual and liturgy and church-novels and poems and music and dance-and from people who don't know the jargon but often know the Lord and the church. The tide of this presentation comes from one such fellow named Sam. He is a member of St. Henry Church on the southwest side of Cleveland. You'll see a little of that church later on in this hour. We were there last fall, some of us from LTP, to make a video about the communion …

The Lord's Banquet: Resources, Problems And Perspectives From The New Testament, Edgar Krentz

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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The New Testament provides the fundamental basis for the church's celebration of the Lord's Supper and, at the same time, the major source from which to critique aspects of the church's Eucharistic practice today. It is important to hear the New Testament as carefully as possible, in all its variety, in order to understand the New Testament elements that go to make up contemporary Eucharistic practice and theology. In what I do today I will carry out my role as a New Testament scholar: to hear the New Testament in all its variety and diversity as an aid in …

Table Of Remembrance, David N. Power O.M.I.

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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The theme announced for this Institute is "Grace upon Grace: Uving Bread." In this keynote address I have been asked to set an ecumenical tone for your conversations about the Eucharist, speaking to "how it means" for the faithful and drawing upon my own theology-which reviewers, both Lutheran and Evangelical, have dubbed a distinctively Roman Catholic theology but one that is ecumenically open and challenging. I think this means that it opens the way to better mutual understanding and enrichment. Drawing on this theology, I have chosen five headings under which to offer my considerations: the Eucharist as testament …

Diaconalogue, No. 27, Lutheran Deaconess Association, Inc.

Diaconalogue

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Diaconalogue, No. 26, Lutheran Deaconess Association, Inc.

Diaconalogue

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Fear And Faith In The Fields Of Our Hearts, David G. Truemper

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. This morning's sermon is in some ways a sermon that many of you have already preached this week. The lessons are familiar, and those of you who occupied pulpits across the churches of the land hear still the echo of the way the Gospel sounded in your parishes. And those of you who were occupying other roles in those parishes heard that same Gospel. It echoes its Alleluias and its amazing connections between the wounds that our Lord shows as the basis for his …

Liturgy At Ground Level, Martin A. Seltz

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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On the back yard of our parish lot is a patch of ground I drive by every day. It is the place where we have a bonfire of trees and greens on the Twelfth Night of Christmas. Each Ash Wednesday, if it is not covered by snow, it is a blackened smudge on the face of the lawn. By Easter, however, that patch seems the most alive. For there the green blade rises, unhindered by dead overgrowth, looking even greener against the charred earth.

Like Wheatt Arising Green: How The Church Grows And Thrives, Walter R. Bouman

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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The theme for the 1991 Institute of Liturgical Studies is taken from the hymn "Now the Green Blade Rises." This wonderful Easter hymn, No. 148 in The Lutheran Book of Worship, concludes each stanza with the refrain, "Love is come again like wheat arising green." The resurrection of Jesus is portrayed as grain which sprouts from seed. The imagery comes from the Gospel of John, from a saying of Jesus, the whole context of which is instructive.

Is Dialogue Hazardous To Ecumenism?, Robert W. Bertram

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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If we distinguish between bad dialogue and gOod dialogue, then, yes, bad dialogue is indeed hazardous to ecumenism. But good dialogue, by contrast, is the very soul of ecumenism. In what follows I would like to go so far as to propose that good dialogue may even be, like Word and Sacraments, a "mark of the Church," what the tradition calls a nota ecclesiae. Goodness knows, there is still plenty of bad dialogue around, often palmed off as good, even by professional ecumenists and theologians. But there are also signs of good dialogue, maybe not overwhelming signs, but frequent …

And They Danced, David H. Kehret, John Steven Paul

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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PERFORMANCE NOTES: And They Danced is designed to be played in a chancel: a very compact space. Most chancels feature several steps leading from the floor of the nave and landing on the high altar level. The staging suggested in this script depends on such steps. For example, at the opening, the players are arranged in a symmetrical grouping on at least three levels. On the top level, three men are arranged as follows: SIX in the middle, FOUR to his right, and FIVE to his left. Two of the women are on the step below: TWO stage right …

Valpostscripts (Winter 1990), Karl E. Lutze

ValPostScripts

In each of the past several Christmas seasons we've asked various members of our University family to jot down a few words about how they might approach the days of the Yule season so that they might be neither preoccupied nor distracted in their busyness from celebrating the true meaning of Christmas. Here are thoughts shared for anticipating Christmas 1990.

Valpostscripts (Pentecost 1990), Karl E. Lutze

ValPostScripts

Perspective 1990

They'd been waiting so long for this commencement day. It was finally here. Their families were here. And who could really comprehend it all: the very last time some of the graduates would ever see certain other classmates again;

The Vanguard (Vol. 36 [37], No. 6 [1]), Nov-Dec [Jan-Feb] 1990, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

During the mid-1980s, the Rural Crisis Issue Team of the National Council of churches worked with several Inner-City Church Groups on the loss of land experienced by farmers, especially black farmers, and the changing food system and Rural-Urban Connection Conferences across the country. It was evident by the attendance at those events that urban dwellers were not too concerned that farmers were being forced from the land but some participants registered concern over the quality and price of food stuffs.

Diaconalogue, No. 23, Lutheran Deaconess Association, Inc.

Diaconalogue

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