To: NYer; Cletus.D.Yokel; TonyRo76; redgolum
For classic Lutheran theology, hymns are a theological "source:" not up there with Scripture, of course, but ranking not-so-far below Luther's "Small Catechism." Hymns, in this tradition, are not liturgical filler. Hymns are distinct forms of confessing the Church's faith. Old school Lutherans take their hymns very seriously. This is most certainly true.
To: Charles Henrickson
My wife, who is not Lutheran, can not understand why I don't feel at home unless there is a loud organ and hymns in the "old fashioned" style.
I've tried to explain to her the significance hymns have to the Lutheran liturgy, but it falls on deaf ears (probably from the last organ solo).
7 posted on
08/29/2006 1:34:41 PM PDT by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: Charles Henrickson
Mash
here hard core, "old school" Catholic hymnody ... this material is ancient and timeless, and truly expresses the eternal Truth which Our Lord entrusted to the Church. That modernists have tried to throw it all away never ceases to annoy me.
15 posted on
08/29/2006 1:47:45 PM PDT by
ArrogantBustard
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