Worship and Culture

Thomas H. Schattauer
-- Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa
“This wide-ranging collection of essays takes up the pathbreaking study of worship and culture sponsored by the Lutheran World Federation in the last decade of the twentieth century and carries the conversation forward into the twenty-first century. Readers new to that conversation will give thanks for this introduction to the seminal statements and work of the LWF study. Readers familiar with the issues will find here new treasures of understanding and insight.”

Mark R. Francis, CSV
-- Catholic Theological Union, Chicago
“Offers a sure guide to the often complex development of recent thinking on culture and liturgy and moves the discussion forward by asking hard questions about the contextualization of worship with which all Christians need to contend. In bringing these superb essays together in one volume, Glaucia Vasconcelos Wilkey has done the churches an immeasurable service. Any serious study on worship and culture will now have to take into account this extraordinary resource."

Dagmar Heller
-- Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, Switzerland
“This volume not only revisits former Lutheran World Federation work but offers new contributions -- not just from Lutheran scholars -- to an important ecumenical discussion that sometimes seems to be forgotten.”