Neither Voice nor Heart Alone: German Lutheran Theology of Music in the Age of the Baroque

Neither Voice nor Heart Alone: German Lutheran Theology of Music in the Age of the Baroque

by Joyce L. Irwin

Overview

In tracing theological approaches to music in the era between Luther and Bach, the author reveals the variety and tension in German Lutheran theology. Both dogmatism and devotionalism helped shape Lutheran spirituality. The introduction of Italian Baroque style into church music, however, evoked controversies which pitted Pietism against Orthodoxy and preachers against musicians.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781725239227
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 01/09/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: NOOK Book
Pages: 220
File size: 24 MB
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About the Author

Joyce Irwin received her PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University, has taught at the University of Georgia and at Colgate University and has served as organist and choir director in various churches. She currently resides in Hamilton, New York. In addition to numerous journal articles, she has published in Womanhood in Radical Protestantism, 1525-1675 and Sacred Sound: Music in Religious Thought and Practice.

Table of Contents

Contents: The role of church music in the theology of German Lutherans from Luther through the age of confessionalism and orthodoxy to Pietism and the Enlightenment, concluding with J.S. Bach.

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