History of the Christian Church, Volume VII. Modern Christianity. The German Reformation.

(Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Easter), and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit (Ascension and Pentecost), with the concluding fes ...

Leipz. 1855, 2 parts. Julius Mützell: Geistliche Lieder der evangelischen Kirche aus dem 16ten Jahrh. nach den ältesten Drucken. ...

and brought to maturity with the Reformation and with the idea of the general priesthood of believers. The Latin Church had prep ...

The lyric church poetry and music began with the "Kyrie Eleison" and "Christe Eleison," which passed from the Greek church into ...

The "Minnesänger" of the thirteenth century—among whom Gottfried of Strassburg and Walther von der Vogelweide are the most emine ...

The mediaeval hymnody celebrates Mary as the queen of heaven, as the "eternal womanly," which draws man insensibly heavenward.^6 ...

Luther availed himself with his conservative tact of all existing helps for the benefit of public worship and private devotion. ...

Among his strictly original hymns are, — "Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein" (1523). (Rejoice, rejoice, dear flock of Chris ...

of Wittenberg.^656 How highly his contemporaries thought of them, may be inferred from Cyriacus Spangenberg, likewise a hymnist, ...

"Bedenk, o Mensch, die grosse Gnad." (Remember, man, the wondrous grace.) Markgraf Albrecht of Brandenburg (d. 1557), is the aut ...

become more or less popular, and passed into different hymn-books. Fischer^659 gives the first lines of about five thousand of t ...

the letters "H. L. L." (Hymns from the Land of Luther);^664 James W. Alexander,^665 Henry Mills,^666 John Kelly,^667 not to ment ...

Luther discussed this subject first in his Address to the German Nobility (1520). In 1524 he wrote a special book in which he ur ...

choice and selection for elegance and ornament? The arts and languages, which do us no harm, nay, which are a greater ornament, ...

confusion followed. A reconstruction of government and discipline became necessary. The idea of an invisible church of all belie ...

doctrine of the parity of ministers.^673 The organization of the Lutheran churches was, however, for a number of years regarded ...

The German Reformation did not stimulate the duty of self-support, nor develop the faculty of self-government. It threw the chur ...

the kingdom. In many instances the terms may be interchanged, while in others we could not substitute the church for the kingdom ...

fellowship with that body. In explaining the article "the holy church," in his version of the Creed (which omits the epithet "ca ...

Hus it passed to Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin, who agreed in denying the claims of the papacy to exclusive catholicity, and in wi ...