Why do Lutherans Sing? Lutherans, Music, and the Gospel in the First Century of the Reformation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3243045
AutoresJ Andreas Loewe, Andreas Loewe (0000-0003-4338-3147, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen82
Número1
Páginas69-89
Fecha de publicación2013-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaChurch History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0009640712002521
OpenAlexW2143739788
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas15

Martin Luther regarded music as a crucial instrument to communicate the Gospel and the Reformation message. From the outset of his Reformation, a distinctive Lutheran musical tradition was fostered in electoral Saxony, its dependent territories and neighboring principalities. A review of contemporary records from the second decade of the sixteenth century to the turn of the seventeenth century enables the assessment of the role music played as an educational and theological tool in the life of Lutheran communities: the School Ordinances of electoral Saxony and neighboring principalities show the incorporation of music as a key curricular requirement in Lutheran education, while the Statutes of Lutheran choirs[Kantoreien]illustrate how theologians, educators and musicians closely worked together to shape Lutheran communities centred on music-making, in order to reform worship, further the Reformation message and to create community cohesion

Art · Gospel · Literature · Music education · Musical · Political science · Sacred music · Sociology · Statute · Theology · Visual arts · Worship · Classics · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · Historical Legal Studies and Society · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity