tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post3503430954321480355..comments2024-03-29T04:31:15.219-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: We have beheld His glory. . .Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-23535126728910729222017-12-23T21:36:07.055-06:002017-12-23T21:36:07.055-06:00Recently, I've read an account of the provenan...Recently, I've read an account of the provenance (almost 500 years) of the Cranach altar retable at St. Wolfgang's church at Schneeberg in Saxony. It's a miracle that we have any of it left to us today. Beholding glory is applicable to the visual arts, just as it is to the musical arts. Here at Schneeberg we have the first church built and furnished for Lutheran service in the 1530s while Luther was still alive. In the 19th century, CFW Walther attended the Schneeberg Gymnasium and is presumed to have been familiar with St. Wolfgang's. Here's the link to the provenance piece at the Cranach Digital Archives:<br />http://lucascranach.org/DE_WSCH_NONE-WSCH001AJoannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09777514643611989502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-53889945952165236162017-12-23T16:11:47.969-06:002017-12-23T16:11:47.969-06:00"The first Lutheran I ever saw kiss the altar..."The first Lutheran I ever saw kiss the altar was the Rev. Dr. Edward F. Peters, my German and Greek instructor at St. John's College, Winfield, KS ..."<br /><br />Is this the same Edward F. Peters who authored the two-volume 1968 Concordia Seminary ThD dissertation "The Origin and Meaning of the Axiom: 'Nothing Has the Character of a Sacrament Outside of the Use', in Sixteenth-century and Seventeenth-century Lutheran Theology?" It is a prodigiously learned and fascinating work, in which Dr. Peters demonstrated (among many other things) that the "axiom" first arise in Reformed purlieux among those hostile to some Lutheran liturgical practices.William Tighehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09043433059401608468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-36261778944238356732017-12-23T08:00:17.183-06:002017-12-23T08:00:17.183-06:00IMO, there has been a societal trend away from big...IMO, there has been a societal trend away from big institutions since the decade of the 60’s which fomented anti-establishment fervor. Big business, big church and big (federal) government during the Vietnam War, and, a few years later, Watergate contributed to a diminishing trust of the Baby Boom generation which became immersed in drugs, sex, rock and roll. Our generation tuned in, turned on, and dropped out and became suspicious of those they perceived had lied and let them down. Boomers started to question everything and rejected the values handed down to them in their rebellious fervor based on the failure of those very institutions and the values they represented. Those who remained in the church began to question the utility of the liturgy and decided it had to go, or at least be toned down. American Christianity tended to be revivalistic anyway and leaned more toward the camp meeting than anything seen as a reverting to Romish rites and ceremonies, which were seen as unnecessarily abstruse. High church took a hit in the court of public opinion and has not recovered yet. That is why Lutheran churches must lead the way to catechetical renaissance teaching the Lutheran Confessions at every opportunity to those who attend our LCMS churches but haven’t got a clue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com