Talk:Lutheran orthodoxy

message: This last sentence in the first paragraph of the section on Worship and Spirituality ("As late as the time of Johann Sebastian Bach, churches in Leipzig still heard Polyphonic motets in Latin, Latin Glorias, chanted Latin collects and The Creed sung in Latin by the choir.") seems overly limiting and misleading, in my opinion.  The truth is, prior to the modern ecumenical movement which resulted in the formation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) there were Lutheran congregations in the United States continuing to conduct services in Latin on a regular basis, even after the Roman-Catholic Vatican II Council.  I was born in 1961 and my first recollected experiences in Lutheran liturgy are as a boy soprano in a Lutheran Church in Decatur, Illinois (an affiliate of either the American Lutheran Church, ALC; or Lutheran Church in America, LCA).  Well into the 1970s several churches I attended in the U.S. midwest conducted services in Latin on High Holy Days.  It was not until The Lutheran Hymnal (1941), often referred to as The Red Hymnal was replaced by Lutheran Worship (1982,  the Blue Hymnal) that Latin finally disappeared from the liturgy in entirety.  However, even today, it is not uncommon for the Anthem to be a Latin setting and on a few rare instances a Hymn might even be sung in Latin in some churches.  In my opinion, the continued use of Latin tends to be in direct proportion to the  importance of musical spirituality in the congregation.
--Symmerhill (a.k.a. Summerhilll) (talk) 21:03, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latin Usage in Liturgy 

message: The chart on this page is completely false and should be removed.  I tried to remove it but it wouldn't work!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jpw062588 (talk • contribs) 13:20, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The chart is unsourced and reads like a rant.  I'll move it to the talk page, but I honestly don't see its value except, as you said, as a polemic.  Fishal (talk) 06:25, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chart needs to be fixed 

message: The article ought to verify on whether the notion of a Papal Antichrist is really an article of faith in Lutheran Orthodoxy. ADM (talk) 10:10, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It is, given this doctrinal textbook from Google Books. It is an article of faith, as opposed to an article of morals, and while it is non-fundamental, agreement on it is still essential for establishing church-fellowship. Most Lutherans today of course wouldn't agree with this, but that is because they don't adhere to Lutheran Orthodoxy.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 07:40, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Pope as Antichrist

message: I propose merging Lutheran scholasticism into Lutheran orthodoxy. I think the content in Lutheran scholasticism can easily be explained in the context of Lutheran orthodoxy, and a merger would not cause any article-size or weighting problems in Lutheran orthodoxy. Another possible merge target - Protestant scholasticism, but I believe that it is better to merge into Lutheran orthodoxy. The article on a similar topic has title Calvinist orthodoxy.--Lagelander (talk) 09:50, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[Lutheran scholasticism]]