Talk:Lutheran orthodoxy

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This last sentence in the first paragraph of the section on Worship and Spirituality ("As late as the time of Johann Sebastian Bach, churches in Leipzig still heard Polyphonic motets in Latin, Latin Glorias, chanted Latin collects and The Creed sung in Latin by the choir.") seems overly limiting and misleading, in my opinion. The truth is, prior to the modern ecumenical movement which resulted in the formation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) there were Lutheran congregations in the United States continuing to conduct services in Latin on a regular basis, even after the Roman-Catholic Vatican II Council. I was born in 1961 and my first recollected experiences in Lutheran liturgy are as a boy soprano in a Lutheran Church in Decatur, Illinois (an affiliate of either the American Lutheran Church, ALC; or Lutheran Church in America, LCA). Well into the 1970s several churches I attended in the U.S. midwest conducted services in Latin on High Holy Days. It was not until The Lutheran Hymnal (1941), often referred to as The Red Hymnal was replaced by Lutheran Worship (1982, the Blue Hymnal) that Latin finally disappeared from the liturgy in entirety. However, even today, it is not uncommon for the Anthem to be a Latin setting and on a few rare instances a Hymn might even be sung in Latin in some churches. In my opinion, the continued use of Latin tends to be in direct proportion to the importance of musical spirituality in the congregation. --Symmerhill (a.k.a. Summerhilll) (talk) 21:03, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The chart on this page is completely false and should be removed. I tried to remove it but it wouldn't work! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jpw062588 (talk • contribs) 13:20, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. The chart is biased and speaks with clear POV language: "The semper virgo is at best a pious opinion" and "reverence is discouraged by creative services....and ceremonies are instituted to entertain the bored" are examples of POV terms with an obvious slant for one half of the chart. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.1.42.30 (talk) 22:01, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have not written the comparison, but I think it certainly is very useful to undestand differences in the whole world view, which can bee seen in religion before and after Enlightenment. It would not be right to say that it is "completely false" (especially when some statements are documented), but I agree that it is a bit polemic, which is unnecessary. However, this kind of comparison really requires knowledge and as we all know, Age of Orthodoxy is not specially well known. We should resist temptations to approach this issue ideologically from modern or old tendencies but continue to try to find historically important indicators of change. (Terot 19:01, 7 October 2007 (UTC))[reply]

The chart is unsourced and reads like a rant. I'll move it to the talk page, but I honestly don't see its value except, as you said, as a polemic. Fishal (talk) 06:25, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article ought to verify on whether the notion of a Papal Antichrist is really an article of faith in Lutheran Orthodoxy. ADM (talk) 10:10, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is, given this doctrinal textbook from Google Books. It is an article of faith, as opposed to an article of morals, and while it is non-fundamental, agreement on it is still essential for establishing church-fellowship. Most Lutherans today of course wouldn't agree with this, but that is because they don't adhere to Lutheran Orthodoxy.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 07:40, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I propose merging