Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Across the country among Methodists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians and Lutherans, a radical reform in both the form and content of religious services is now under way. It is a liturgical revival that both goes back to primitive Christianity in its emphasis on the Communion service as the central sacrament of worship and, at the same time, is immensely sophisticated in welcoming back much of the traditional richness of the church. "The revival," says Dr. Edgar S. Brown Jr., executive director of the department of worship for the United Lutheran Church in America, "has made the church aware that there...
Back to the Altar. Rebelling against what were thought to be abuses in the Roman Catholic Mass, the Protestant Reformation emphasized the preaching of God's word in sermons at the expense of sacramental worship. This emphasis was heightened in the U.S., argues Lutheran Brown, where "the development of Protestantism in the 18th and early 19th centuries was primarily that of the Methodist and Baptist kind of fervent expression of religion.'' Even in churches with strong liturgical traditions-such as the Lutherans and Episcopalians-hymns placed more emphasis upon individual piety than on praise...
...United Church of Christ, "until finally we found that we had put everyday clothes on Sunday." Adds Dr. Earl Waldrop of San Antonio's Central Christian Church: "We began to realize that for no reason other than prejudice, we had discarded some of the beautiful aspects of worship. We had become more a meeting of fellowship than a group of worshipers." According to Dr. Samuel Miller, dean of Harvard Divinity School, ecumenicism has been a major influence in the liturgical revival...
...reflected the wide diversity of belief within the Council. The report urged member churches to strive for a "mutual recognition of ministries" as a first step toward recognition of members, suggested that local churches-even while prohibited from sharing the Lord's Supper-could grow together through "common worship, Bible study groups, prayer cells, joint visitation, common witness in our communities." At major interfaith meetings, intercommunion could be allowed even when union was not in sight. Perhaps, the report went on, the matter might better be resolved if unity meetings reversed the usual order of discussion, concentrated on what...
...church of today to carry out this sublime office more effectively that led us to convoke the second ecumenical Vatican Council.* For it is our hope that the impressive union of the church's worldwide hierarchy will not only serve to strengthen the bonds of unity in faith, worship and government, but will also be a means of attracting the attention of countless believers in Christ and move them to come round 'the Great Shepherd of the Flock...