This article provides insight from a musical perspective into the issues facing the LWF in its strategies for forming Lutheran liturgical identities. It focuses on music's formative role in creating identity, as well as on the ways Martin Luther worked to form a liturgical identity through diverse musical forms, including Gregorian chant, folk music, and classical music as composed by Josquin Des Prez. The author defines and explores the structural element of auto-transformatism as a distinct quality for liturgical identities in the tradition of Martin Luther, also highlighting its relevance for religiously inspired music in the Lutheran tradition in the twenty-first century. He argues that discovering such liturgies worldwide leads to a stronger appreciation and thus support of embodied faith and individual faith narratives as an expression of the Christian identity of all worshipers, to new reflections on Luther's idea of the priesthood of all believers, and to new emphases on the international body of Christ, thusly connecting the local with the global in the Anthropocene.

Enthalten in:
Kerygma und Dogma; 2021/4 Zeitschrift für theologische Forschung und kirchliche Lehre (2021)

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Serie / Reihe: Kerygma und Dogma

Personen: Steinmetz, Uwe

Schlagwörter: Identitätsentwicklung Christliche Identität Liturgie Musik Luthertum