Das Kirchenlied zwischen Traditionalismus und Säkularismus: Ein historischer und systematischer Beitrag zum Kriterienproblem in der Hymnologie

This article concerns itself with the question of what constitutes a hymn, within the framework of the existing state church. This framework is defined as "religious pluralization", characterized by an individualized understanding of Christ, and the parallel development of a new interdenom...

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Authors: Krieg, Gustav A. 1948- (Author) ; Rickli-Koser, Linda (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:German
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Published: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1992
In: Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie
Year: 1992, Volume: 34, Pages: 22-56
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Summary:This article concerns itself with the question of what constitutes a hymn, within the framework of the existing state church. This framework is defined as "religious pluralization", characterized by an individualized understanding of Christ, and the parallel development of a new interdenominational religious awareness, two trends which have been increasingly prominent since the days of post-Reformation Orthodoxy and the Enlightenment. "Pluralization" is intimately associated with a fundamental movement away from traditional forms of religious piety. The article attempts to describe the hymn as a figure of "tentative continuity"; that ist, the hymn is the means by which human beings symbolically express their religious perception of their own finiteness in history. The hymn can therefore claim a more universal validity than if it merely pinpoints a specific moment of human religious history. At this point, the article carefully examines several examples of older as well as of more modern hymnody.
ISSN:2197-3466
Contains:Enthalten in: Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie