Religion Commons^™

With Hearts And Hands And Voices: Sermon At The Holy Eucharist, Herbert Lindemann

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Excerpt)

Those of you who are Lutheran--and even some of you who wear another denominational label--will probably have perceived that the theme of this conference is the second line of Martin Rinkhart's famous hymn, "Now thank we all our God." This hymn was written at a time which deserves more than passing notice. The date is 1636, that is, right in the middle of the Thirty Years War. Rinkhart was pastor in his home town of Eilenberg, Saxony, which for some reason--possibly because it was a walled city--became a place of refuge for people fleeing from the horrors of war. …

A Tribute To Herbert Lindemann, David Truemper

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Excerpt)

(An edited transcript of presentations at the Institute Banquet by David Truemper, John Nelson, Jerald Pipping, Walter Bouman, Jill Knuth, and Philip Gehring, with a response by Herbert Lindemann.) Truemper: As announced in our publicity, it is our desire to honor the ministry and the work, the example, the life of service and teaching of Pastor Herbert Lindemann. We probably have a huge fund of stories to tell to Herb and about him. We won't risk telling all of those tonight. His life has been rich and his ministry full, and this room is full of many who have …

Diaconalogue, No. 22, Lutheran Deaconess Association, Inc.

Diaconalogue

No abstract provided.

The Vanguard (Vol. 35, No. 4), Jul-Aug 1989, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Armies of both liberation and occupation have incited fear throughout history in the lands through which they marched or in which they were posted. Since World War II, an increasingly militarized world has continued to suffer under the power of this military presence.

Strong cries of protest are now not only being raised, but are also finally being heard. Not surprisingly, they are women's voices. Women worldwide, struggling for their own human rights, are also expressing the rage and horror of their people who witness the ravishment of their culture, their land, and their lives.

Valpostscripts (Christmas 1988), Karl E. Lutze

ValPostScripts

"Tis the Season. . .

It is Christian folk who more than any others devote so much of themselves to making sure that the focus of Christmas will be centered on the Bethlehem Child. And in such devotion they themselves may “miss Christmas.” Here is how some of our colleagues posture themselves so that their own observance of the Birth will be personally enriching

Diaconalogue, No. 18, Lutheran Deaconess Association, Inc.

Diaconalogue

No abstract provided.

Valpostscripts (Fall 1988), Karl E. Lutze

ValPostScripts

Not Very Long!

How long does it take a new president of a university to really get started in the new setting?

Alan Frederick Harre came to Valparaiso in July as its 17th president, 6th since the school became a Lutheran institution. The inauguration is set for October 26; however, he’s already conducted his first faculty meeting, participated in his first meeting of the board of directors, visited with students in the residence halls, addressed the University Senate, met with all the vice presidents and deans, visited with secretaries and staff personnel, addressed parents of new students, attended worship services …

Diaconalogue, No. 17, Lutheran Deaconess Association, Inc.

Diaconalogue

No abstract provided.

Valpostscripts (Early Summer 1988), Karl E. Lutze

ValPostScripts

Endings and Beginnings

As the school year ends, we say goodbye to our good friend, President Robert V. Schnabel, as he leaves his post. And now we're awaiting the arrival of President Alan F. Harre. Time to reflect and get our bearings for the course before us.

Diaconalogue, No. 16, Lutheran Deaconess Association, Inc.

Diaconalogue

No abstract provided.

Valpostscripts (Early Spring 1988), Karl E. Lutze

ValPostScripts

The Leaving

Ever since VU’s President Robert Schnabel announced his impending retirement date (June 30, 1988) people who have noted and appreciated his devoted contributions to this University have wondered about the future: Is the search for his successor underway? Has anyone yet been named? (Answers: First question, yes; Second, no —at least, as this goes to print!)

The Vanguard (Vol. 35, No. 1), Jan-Feb 1988, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Capital, along with labor, is a fundamental building block of American society. Together they help create the industry services, and information we need to live in the present and to build for the future.

But what kind of future? The purpose of this article is to help you shape a healthy future through socially responsible investing.

You can help influence the way our economy uses capital, regardless of your financial position - whether you are just beginning to accumulate capital, whether you have substantial wealth in a multitude of investments, or even if you have no money to invest.

Diaconalogue, No. 15, Lutheran Deaconess Association, Inc.

Diaconalogue

No abstract provided.

Lukan Easter Formation: Living Out The Resurrection, Edgar M. Krentz

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Excerpt)

We will discuss two types of Easter formation in the early church, with Acts and Luke as guides to our Easter mystagogy. The topic is in one sense natural for a New Testament scholar, since all writers of the New Testament begin theologically from the resurrected Christ, because a Christian's life-style (to use a modem shibboleth) is formed in the New Testament from the event of baptism, and because early Christian parenesis is essentially a realization of life under the Lordship of the Resurrected One. But it also brings some problems.

Rcia And The Formation Of Liturgical Piety, Gabe Huck

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Excerpt)

Here is what I think the "formation of liturgical piety" means. You will recognize at once, I believe, these words which in December 1988 will celebrate their 25th birthday, words taken from the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, the first work of Vatican II. In what seems to me to be the very clearest and most amazing statement of its own zeal for putting the renewal of the liturgy as its first and foundational work, the Council said:

Luther's Enchiridion As Resource For Spiritual Formation, David G. Truemper

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Excerpt)

My purpose in this essay is to consider Luther's Small Catechism as a resource for the spiritual formation of the faithful. That aim brings with it a number of automatic consequences. First, it requires that I take into account also Luther's Large Catechism--that book of advice to pastors in the spiritual formation of Christians. Second, it requires that I invite you to pay attention to the original setting and intention of Luther in writing and publishing his catechisms at the end of the first decade of reformatory activity in Germany. Third, it requires that we consider the catechisms in …

Recovering The Spirit Of Mystagogy In The Contemporary Churches, Ronald J. Lewinski

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Excerpt)

The restoration of the catechumenate in the Roman Catholic tradition since the promulgation of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) in 1972 has been a most surprising pastoral success. Given its size and complexity one might have predicted that the RCIA would simply be ignored or dismissed as irrelevant.

Worship As Mystagogy, George W. Hoyer

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Excerpt)

God is the Great Mystagogue. That is inevitable because God is the Primal Mystery. Therefore the Basic Mystagogy is God's Self -revelation in time. And, when moved by God's "inciting and quickening Spirit," we worship, we exert a Personal Mystagogy.

Passages And Patterns Of Paschal Faith, Thomas A. Droege

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Except)

The Roman Catholic Rite for the Christian Initiation of Adults has been a marvelous instrument for facilitating liturgical renewal throughout the church. Its culmination in the celebration of the paschal feast has contributed mightily to making the Easter vigil the primary liturgical event of the church year. The rite has also helped us to recover the emphasis on the unitary nature of the sacraments of initiation: baptism-confirmation-communion, all celebrated in sequence at the paschal feast. The RCIA can also provide us a perspective from which to examine the formation and transformation of paschal faith. What makes it such a …

Valpostscripts (Late Fall 1987), Karl E. Lutze

ValPostScripts

Rich Returns. .

After all the concern and special care they devote to certain special patients, nurses surely must wonder what happens to such persons, once they have left their particular hospitals.

Pastors surely have cause to wonder what kind of effect a certain sermon or visit or counseling session will have had on the members.

And the thought must surely cross the minds of teachers: “Is what I’m doing with my students really going to have been of some worth when they finally find their places in life?”

Diaconalogue, No. 14, Lutheran Deaconess Association, Inc.

Diaconalogue

No abstract provided.

Diaconalogue, No. 13, Lutheran Deaconess Association, Inc.

Diaconalogue

No abstract provided.

Valpostscripts (Summer 1987), Karl E. Lutze

ValPostScripts

Pleasant Interruption

As usual, Commencement 1987 was marked by congested streets and parking lots, burgeoning trunks and back seats of cars, boxes secured to their roofs by rope and fluttering plastic, and the waving, and the hugging, and the goodbyes. And then follows the quieting of the campus.

Diaconalogue, No. 12, Lutheran Deaconess Association, Inc.

Diaconalogue

No abstract provided.

Valpostscripts (Spring 1987), Karl E. Lutze

ValPostScripts

Spelling Out What We’re About

Palm Sunday at Valparaiso is something very special.

The processional that begins the observance is festive. Bells, fanfare, palm branches, balloons, bright colors, and singing of the Hosanna hymns capture the excitement that surely must have marked our Lord’s awesome coming to Jerusalem.

The Vanguard (Vol. 34, No. 1), Jan-Feb 1987, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

About 110 Christians from across the U.S. recently gathered on Chicago's South Side for a three day conference to examine and reflect on the Kairos Document of South Africa. They were joined by dozens of southern Africans, including several who were at the heart of that document's genesis, and who shared with participants some story of the document's unique evolution as 'Challenge to the Church: A Theological Comment on the Political Crisis m South Africa.'

The Vanguard (Vol. 34, No. 5), Sep-Oct 1987, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Participants at the 1987 Human Relations Institute meeting Waukesha, WI, July 17-19 were challenged to respond to the suffering of the world while being renewed by the promise of Jubilee and hope proclaimed in the scriptures.

In a keynote address Friday afternoon, the Rev. Barbara Lundblad, pastor of Our Saviours Atonement Lutheran Church in New York City, urged participants to reclaim the whole of the Bible both Old and New Testaments to help understand the Jubilee tradition.

What We Have Seen And Heard And Touched, Gilbert Ostdiek O.F.M.

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Excerpt)

This year's Institute of Liturgical Studies has been carrying on an extended conversation on the relation between liturgy, witness, and service. It is a pleasure to join that conversation as a liturgist for whom liturgical catechesis of adults has been a longstanding avocation.

Lex Orandi, Lex Operandi: The Relationship Of Worship And Work In The Early Church, Carl A. Volz

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Excerpt)

We are all familiar with the famous dictum of Prosper of Aquitaine, who in the fifth century coined the axiom, lex orandi, lex credendi. I propose a variation on this principle by suggesting lex orandi, lex operandi, the law of prayer gives birth to the law of works, and my test case will be the early church before Gregory the Great. To take each of these themes separately would be a simple task. We are all familiar with early Christian treatises on worship and the histories of worship. We also possess numerous commentaries on early Christian attitudes toward society …

More Mysteries, Or, Why We Still Come To Church Anyway, Gail Mcgrew Eifrig

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

(Excerpt)

Two years ago, on a brilliantly sunny day in February, I spoke to a small session of this Institute on the subject of preaching. In an address entitled "Behold I Tell You a Mystery: We Shall Not All Sleep," I attempted to initiate a discourse with clergy about preaching, in which the lay voice was not simply a mumbled sentence of praise or criticism given at the church door on Sunday morning, but was instead a participant in a more fully engaged meeting of minds and hearts. I commented at the outset on my claims to a purely lay …