Exploring: Traditional Hymn-based Worship

Well, I am new to this blogging concept so please inform me if I am doing anything wrong, thank you.

Best has done incredible job showing the importance of traditional hymns to society. The fact that many hymns in the hymnbook are "good, simple, and singable" (67) tunes is inescapably true. The best hymns have stood the test of time and continue to be used of God to speak truth about himself, even in this "the newer the better" American society.

While reading this "Traditional Hymn-based" section of the book, I realized the struggle I had with differentiating this view from the "Formal Liturgical" view. In fact, I tried to read Zahl's response to Best's essay in order to find differences, but I failed to. Does anyone have any answer that I am failing to see?

Source Readings on the MRC table in Buckingham

Hey, I've copied the Source Readings for DAY ONE and DAY TWO for those whose books have not yet arrived. They're on the table in the MRC.    

Arianism [The Identity of Christ] and Ambrose

1. The Son and the Father do not have the same essence [ousia].

2. The Son is a created being, even though he is to be recognized as first and foremost among created beings in terms of origination and rank.

3. Although the Son was the creator of the worlds, and must therefore have existed before them and before all time, there was nevertheless a time when the Son did not exist.

The most fundamental Arian belief was the Jesus Christ was not divine in any meaningful sense of the term. He was first among the creatures--that is preeminent in rank, yet unquestionable a creature rather than divine.

Arius [Alexandria] [c. 270-336] Thalia

"Psalms and hymns sound between the two"

Tertullian [c. 160-c.240] on Describing the equality of Christian marriage partners. [read aloud in class].

Montanism

http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/history/2_ch10.htm

Kauflin on Singing and Preaching

http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1362_kauflin_on_singing_and_preaching_and_2_other_conference_interview_clips/

Zooming in on Zahl



Cathedral Church of the Advent Birmingham, AL 
where Paul Zahl ministered from 1995-2004

 Talking Points:

1. Another way of saying formal liturgical [laos+ergo] worship [p. 23, 26]

2. Freedom of worship within a form [p. 24] vs. the bondage of reinvention [p. 24]

3. lex credenti lex orandi [25-26]

4. Music essential for two reasons [29]

5. Three objections [30-33]

6. The Ideal [33-36] 

What to expect at an Anglican Service

This article may help provide you with some clarity in thinking through Paul Zahl's Formal-Liturgical view.  

http://www.anglicansonline.org/basics/expect.html