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- Title: Lutheran Book of Worship: Successes and Failures--a Review for Pastors and Musicians.
- Author : Currents in Theology and Mission
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 261 KB
Description
All worship books contain some features considered to be improvements over previous books. While in most cases they preserve many elements of earlier, similar publications, they all contain some new or revised elements of liturgy or hymnody that make them different from their predecessors. The Lutheran Book of Worship (LBW)(1) continues this tradition. Philip Pfatteicher discusses its older and its innovative features in detail in his Commentary on the LBW. (2) The present article gives a brief summary of fourteen of the revised or innovative features of LBW with a few words about their character and the likely reasons (and degree of) their acceptance. The success or failure of these innovative features can be related to many factors, some of which were beyond the control of congregational leaders. However, experience has shown that adoption of an element of worship is most often related directly to the liturgical or musical inclinations of the parish pastor and church musician responsible for leading congregational worship. Those who spearheaded the elaborate and lengthy introductory process of the church-wide introduction of the book more than twenty-five years ago can bear witness to the fact that if local leaders embraced the liturgical or musical elements of the book in that process and helped their congregations by exercising knowledge, patience, creativity, and vigor, the people responded favorably. If the leaders did not prefer historic liturgical practice (or certain elements of it) or a strong historic and contemporary hymn repertoire (or certain new hymns), or if they did not understand and accept the nature of the features being introduced, the acceptance of LBW structure and innovations floundered. Even congregational size and resources of talent were of relatively little importance in comparison to pastoral and musical leadership in predicting the success of the book.
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