Church Worship Research Articles

EPISTOLARY HERITAGE OF N.I. ILMINSKY AS A SOURCE ON THE HISTORY OF EDUCATING NON-RUSSIAN PEOPLES OF EASTERN RUSSIA (in the last third of the XIX century)

The article is devoted to the analysis of epistolary sources on the history of educating non-Russian peoples of eastern Russia. The correspondence gives an opportunity to present the work of N.I. Ilminsky on education, methods of his activity, difficulties encountered along the way. The correspondence focuses on the development of Orthodox education among non-Russian peoples. The specific composition of letters is diverse. By correspondents, the sources are divided into the following groups: letters to senior statesmen, to figures of the Russian Orthodox Church, to local education figures. By the content, the correspondence is divided into groups of materials: about translation and publishing activities, about organizing the network of non-Russian schools, about training and appointment of teachers and priests, about introducing church worship in native languages. The letters significantly complement our understanding of N.I. Ilminsky’s personality and his educational activities. Currently, many scientists believe that it is necessary to conduct a deeper study and interpretation of historical events concerning educating the population of the country, including non-Russian peoples of the eastern part of Russia, taking into account their diversity. Epistolary sources provide rich material for historical reconstruction, their information potential is rich and diverse. The research methodology is based on historical methods: historical-genetic and historical-comparative. The historical-genetic method enables to trace the course of events in their chronological sequence, the dynamics of processes related to the history of educating non-Russian peoples of eastern Russia. The comparative historical method, which puts the fait accompli as the basis of all arguments and conclusions, was an important method in the historical reconstruction of educational process of the non-Russian peoples of the region under study on the basis of Orthodox education. A variety of epistolary sources made it possible to conduct a holistic historical reconstruction of the period under study in the history of education and to formulate analytical conclusions on the research problem. The author managed to analyze the collected material. The analysis performed gives the opportunity to make a conclusion about the diverse activities of N.I. Ilminsky on education.

Il culto dei servi di DIO vescovi martiri romeni: fra diritto canonico e liturgia

The Cult of God’s Servants Romanian Martyr Bishops: between Canon Law and Liturgy. On the last day of his apostolic trip to Romania (May 31 - June 2, 2019), the Holy Father Pope Francis in the exercise of his canonical powers beatified seven Romanian Greek Catholic bishops who died in odium fidei in communist prisons. By proclaiming the formula for recognizing the martyrdom of these bishops, they are officially recognized as martyrs of the Church of Christ, and as such, according to the canonical discipline in force, they can enjoy the celebration of a public cult of worship. Their feast finds a stable place in the liturgical calendar of the Greek Catholic Church, June 2, and public worship regulated by both common law and the particular law of the Church becomes a liturgical constant that manifests the particular character of these servants of God. Starting from this canonical and liturgical premise, the present study tries to highlight some significant elements regarding the liturgical cult of these martyrs. Thus, a series of disciplinary realities are taken into account, which starting from the historical elements of the cult of saints, then highlights some particular aspects that the current procedure of declaring the martyrdom of God’s servants requires to regulate their public worship. Keywords: divine worship, worship, Servants of God, martyrs, liturgy, liturgical texts, blessed, cause of beatification, persecution.

A “Sloppy Wet Kiss”? Intralingual Translation and Meaning-Making in Contemporary Congregational Songs

Translation as a form of music localization does not only occur in diverse cultural or lingual contexts, it also occurs within an ostensibly homogenous culture and language. The global genre of contemporary congregational songs (CCS) is written and performed through a variety of theological lenses. Sometimes a theological position conveyed in, or ascribed to, CCS can be problematic for certain local expressions of the Christian faith to replicate without needing to alter lyrics, and/or musical content, or at least reinterpret those lyrics in a way which aligns with their theological understanding. This article explores popular CCS, as measured by Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) which have been either accepted, rejected, reinterpreted, or otherwise altered in order to play their part in defining local (English-speaking) church worship and identity. Translation studies and music semiology are applied to selected CCS to demonstrate this nuanced interpretation of “translation” in the localizing of religious musical practice

“Essentials” for Worship: Evelyn Underhill’s Prayer Book

This article explores some of the theological principles required for effective church worship. In 1927, Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941) outlined four “Essentials” or principles for effective liturgy, identified in the context of revisions to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer: adoration, the historic, the Eternal, and the interplay between spirit and sense. This article explores the extent to which these four theological principles are actually embodied in prayers that Underhill selected and wrote for retreat leading at The House of Retreat, Pleshey (north London, UK), recently published as Evelyn Underhill’s Prayer Book. Additional theological principles, not mentioned in Underhill’s “Essentials” essay but evident in her book of prayers, are also evaluated and exemplified. Underhill’s guidance to her spiritual directees about the value of liturgy in their spiritual lives is also briefly touched upon.

Whatever happened to God’s holiness? The holiness of God and the theological authenticity of the South African neo-Pentecostal prophetic activities

The controversial activities of the neo-Pentecostal prophets (NPPs) in South Africa raise many theological questions. From a systematic theological perspective that affirms the importance of Christian doctrines in regulating church worship and practice, this article uses God’s holiness to evaluate the theological authenticity of the NPPs’ controversial activities. The research question answered in the article is: how can an understanding of the holiness of God empower Christian believers to respond meaningfully to the controversial practices? The article begins by describing the theoretical framework of God’s holiness. This is followed by describing the NPPs’ shift from prophecy focusing on holiness to one focused on human needs. Furthermore, this shift among the NPPs from holiness to human needs is attributed to celebrity cultism through which the prophets thrust themselves as powerful figures who are able to solve people’s problems. Afterward an analysis is made of how the holiness of God is violated by the NPPs’ controversial practices. Finally, some steps are suggested for NPPs and their followers to take to align their activities with God’s holiness. The contribution of the article lies in highlighting the importance of God’s holiness as a standard of measuring the Christian authenticity of the controversial activities of the NPPs in South Africa. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The article uses insights from the doctrine of God’s holiness, the role of biblical prophecy and the doctrine of the church, to critique the controversial activities of the NPPs in South Africa.

Rancang Bangun Smart Church Broadcasting Sebagai Upaya Penguatan Sarana Prasarana Ibadah di Masa Pandemi Covid-19

The Covid-19 outbreak in Indonesia has changed the conventional worship procedures. Health protocols by the Government of Indonesia have Changed the worship of Church congregations from face to face become interface to interface through online worship. However, problems arise when Church administrators have little knowlege about the application of computer applications to Church services. This paper will explain the design of online-based worship using a smart broadcasting design using a simple V8 live soundcard, 16 channel audio mixer, OBS Studio 26.0.2, Computers, Church music equipment, handycam and social media channels. The results of this study are in the form of designing a Church worship system by utilizing the limited budget for purchasing professional broadcast equipment, but being able to digitize analog equipment owned by the Church. Futhermore, this study resulted in an equation of the application of Smart Church Broadcasting (SCB) using Fuzzy Tsukamoto.

김수근의 경동교회 건축에 대한 기독교 예전적 분석 - 제임스 화이트(James F. White)의 교회건축과 예배공간에 대한 이해를 중심으로 -

이 논문은 김수근(1931~1986)이 설계한 경동교회를 기독교 예전적 시각에서 분석 하고 교회건축의 본질을 어떻게 표현하고 있는지를 탐구한다. 교회가 예배를 위해 만 들어진 공간이라는 점에 기초하여 예배의 관찰자와 사용자의 입장에서 객관적, 서술 적 연구를 시도한다. 첫 번째 장에서는 경동교회 건축과 제임스 화이트(James F. White)의 교회건축에 대한 이해를 소개하고 그가 제시한 6가지 공간을 중심으로 경동교회의 공간들을 살핀 다. 여섯 가지 공간은 모이는 공간, 움직이는 공간, 회중을 위한 공간, 찬양대석, 세례 공간, 성소 혹은 강단이다. 두 번째 장에서는 화이트가 이야기한 교회건축시 고려사항을 기준으로 경동교회를 평가한다. 유용성(Utility), 단순성(Simplicity), 유연성(Flexibility), 친밀성(Intimacy), 예술성 혹은 미적 감성(Beauty)의 측면에서 평가한다. 경동교회는 단순성과 유연성, 그리고 친밀성에서 아쉬움이 있지만 나름의 독특성을 통해 교회건축의 새로운 유형을 보여준다. 세 번째 장에서는 교회건축의 본질의 입장에서, 즉 성과 속을 이어주는 전이공간으 로서의 속성과 공공성과 환대성, 그리고 토착화에 대하여 화이트의 의견을 중심으로 경동교회 건축을 평가한다. 경동교회 예배당은 종교성의 구현에 탁월하면서 넓은 의 미에서의 토착화의 사례로도 여겨질 수 있다. 공공성과 환대성은 경동교회의 사역에 서 꾸준히 추구해왔던 부분이며 앞으로 더 깊고 넓은 신학적 대화를 통해 발전시킬 부분이다. 이 연구를 통해 독자들은 역사적으로 의미깊은 건축물로서의 경동교회에 대한 평 가에 더하여 기독교 예배의 시각에서 그 “예배공간”에 어떤 신학과 철학을 담아냈는 지를 발견하는 기회가 될 것이다.

Kako učenici ocenjuju doprinos pojedinih elemenata verske nastave njihovom moralnom razvoju

The paper presents findings on the contribution of elements of religious education to moral development, in assessments of students who attend religious education, Orthodox Christians in Serbia (sample of 446 respondents representing the 7th and 8th grade of primary schools, and the 3rd and 4th grade of secondary schools). The aim of the research was to assess the assessment of students in which ways - elements of religious education contribute to the moral development. It was assumed that students have a positive opinion about the contribution of religious education to the moral development, as well as that the ways of conducting religious education, personality and approach in communication of religious education teachers (religious teachers) are important factors of moral development, and that religious education has significant place factors of moral development. Method applied in this study is systematic non-experimental observation and correlation analysis, by which were evaluated and interpreted data collected by questionnaire constructed for the occasion - students expressed their opinion on what contributed the most to their moral formation in terms of age in the faith. Among the important results are: The personality of religious teacher is of great importance and its contribution depends on his knowledge of the content transmitted to the students, and on interesting ways of teaching, by visiting Temples of the Holy Spirit and participation in church worship, while information and communication technologies are less significant. Practical pedagogical implications of these results are devoting special attention to personnel potential of religious teachers.

Presentation of the cult of Christian saints in anti-religious museum exhibitions during the era of the “Great Turn”

The article describes the goals, principles and different forms of the presentation of the cult of saints in the exhibitions of anti-religious and local history museums in the context of the ideological and cultural tasks of museum construction in the early 1930s. The issue of the presentation of icons and objects of church worship for anti-religious purposes was extremely acute: on the one hand, it was impossible to create an exposition about religion without exhibiting artifacts related to it, on the other, these artifacts were supposed to expose religion. After the campaign to uncover the “relics”, they were often exhibited in museums for anti-religious purposes, but this demonstration most often had the opposite effect. The article analyzes the materials of the discussion on the possibility of using icons and religious objects in anti-religious exhibitions. The author shows that during the period under study, the contradictions between the “anti-religious”, who considered interest in religious art as “grave aestheticism” that strengthened religion, and representatives of the so-called “culturalism” who tried to preserve and exhibit items of religious culture in museums. Particular attention is paid to studying the search for a “third way” in resolving the existing conflict between the classical principles of exhibiting religious art and the new so-called an “anti-religious” approach, which was based on the comparative study of religions and field anthropological research on popular religiosity. The main principles of this “third way”, focused on the preservation and display of items of religious culture, were the rejection of their pietistic interpretation, attention to formal art analysis, as well as Marxist historical, cultural and sociological analysis.

СТАНОВЛЕНИЕ ИСТОРИКО-ЛИТУРГИЧЕСКОГО НАПРАВЛЕНИЯ В РУССКОЙ АКАДЕМИЧЕСКОЙ НАУКЕ КОНЦА XIX – НАЧАЛА XX В.: СОПОСТАВИТЕЛЬНЫЙ АНАЛИЗ МЕТОДОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ПОДХОДОВ Н.В. ПОКРОВСКОГО И И.А КАРАБИНОВА

n the second half of the 19th century – especially in the period following the introduction of the Academic Constitution of 1869, and in the 1880s and continuing until the forced closure of Theological Academies after the Revolutionary coup – the historical and liturgical research area in Russian academic science experienced a period of its formation and flourishing. The subject of the article is a comparison of approaches to the study of the worship service history and analysis of the formation of the research methodology for teaching Liturgics by professors N.V. Pokrovsky and I.A. Karabinov of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, where they taught the history of Christian worship from the 1880’s until its forced closure in 1918. Analysis and juxtapos- ing of academic courses in Liturgics allows defining the boundaries and content of the discipline in the period of its formation as well as considering the evolu- tion in research methodology and, more broadly, the formation of the Russian historical and liturgical scientific school. A comparison of the courses reveals the authors attitudes towards histori- cal sources material and its studies. Their own ideas about the provenance of various rites used in church worship characterize their views on the develop- ment of the liturgical tradition, expressing their approaches to its study and thereby form our picture of the establishment of historical Liturgics as a field of researchable knowledge.

하나님의 선교 내러티브의 구현과 성만찬의 선교적 재해석: 선교적 예배(Missional Worship)에 관한 소고

As pointed out by the Liturgical Movement, church worship today emphasizes the aspect of practical use in contemporary society, and the meaning of the liturgy has faded. If the missional church is the result of the God’s mission, then worship there must fully reveal the missional nature of the Triune God. Missional worship aims at encountering and experiencing missional God, rather than encouraging church members to serve local communities. Missional worship let all members of the church recognize themselves as being called and sent by God. To this end, in missional worship, God’s mission narrative recorded in the Bible must be fully embodied, and the Holy Communion, which has been too simplified in terms of quantity and quality, must be restored missionally.

바울의 예배 기획 원리를 통해 본 ‘‘코로나’’ 시대의 교회 예배 방향성 제안

바울의 예배 기획 원리를 통해 본 ‘‘코로나’’ 시대의 교회 예배 방향성 제안

The Relevance of University Music Curricula to the Requirements of Church Music Job Market in Kenya.

In the prevailing global church music job market, church worship ministers or music directors are on high demand as they play a crucial role in church liturgy and other church musical events. Globally, many universities offer programmes on music training and pastoral leadership. In Kenya, such training is predominantly in theological schools with few universities offering such programmes. Currently, there is a growing interest of church musicians in Kenya due to the need to spread the gospel beyond the church walls and to promote ecumenism. For example, churches participate in church crusades, church concerts, and inter-churches music festivals. This strengthens the need for church worship ministers with music and leadership training. Universities in Kenya are, therefore, obligated to offer church music programmes that will enable these worship ministers to fit in the current job market. The discourse on church music, though, is rare in Kenya hence limited literature on the same. The study had an objective of establishing the relevance of university music curricula to the requirements of church music job market in Kenya. Elliot's Praxial theory underpinned the study. The study found out that universities are not keen to include music programmes that are relevant to the music job market. The Simple Matching Coefficient (SMC) of university X and Y music curricula to the requirements of church music job market was 0.00. Both universities did not have a church music program hence missing all the requirements of the given job market. The study recommends that there is a need to develop church music programmes in universities in Kenya, and this can be done in collaboration with the Schools of Theology at the university.

What helps young Christians grow in discipleship? Exploring connections between discipleship pathways and psychological type

ABSTRACT Drawing on data provided by 299 12- to 18-year-old Baptists attending a week-long summer programme of the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada, the study explores the connections between personal factors (age and sex), psychological factors (introversion, sensing, feeling, and judging), and contextual factors (church support and challenges to faith), four discipleship pathways (group activities, individual experiences, church worship, and public engagement), and two indices of Christian growth (depth of discipleship and strength of vocation). The data demonstrate that psychological factors shape preferred pathways of discipleship, that perceived church support is important for growing both depth of discipleship and strength of vocation, that perceived challenges to faith weaken depth of discipleship, that the discipleship pathway of group activities is central to growing young Christians within the Baptist tradition, and that depth of discipleship is further enhanced by the pathway of individual experience, while strength of vocation is further enhanced by the pathway of church worship.

PERANAN PEMUSIK GEREJA DALAM MENGIRINGI NYANYIAN JEMAAT

Abstract
 This paper is intended to describe the musical mastery of church musicians or worship attendants. The accompanist who truly mastered the technique or pattern of accompanying songs in congregational worship and integrating with the musical instruments used is a beautiful harmony for church singing. This paper uses a descriptive method that is a research method aimed at phenomena that exist today or in the past, and this descriptive method by looking at the reality that occurs in a church caused by a musician. (1) Lack of insight in song mastery, (2) Lack of insight in using appropriate accompaniment patterns, (3) Lack of practice before meeting in worshiping, (4) Lack of relationships and communication between religious leaders and musicians.

THE FORMATION OF THE CHRISTIAN OUTLOOK OF THE STUDENT YOUTH IN VOLHYNIA PROVINCE (19th ‒ early 20th century)

KARPENKO Oresta – PhD hab. (Education), Associate Professor, Professor of General Pedagogy and Preschool Education Department, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, 24 Ivan Franko Str., Drohobych, 82100, UkraineE-mail address: ochepil@gmail.com ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1841-882X ResearcherID: https://publons.com/researcher/2354981/oresta-karpenko/To cite this article: Karpenko, O. (2020). The formation of the Christian outlook of the student youth in Volhynia province (19th ‒ early 20th century). Human Studies. Series of Pedagogy, 10/42, 113‒121. doi: https://doi.org/10.24919/2413-2039.10/42.198829 Article historyReceived: February 5, 2020Received in revised form: March 6, 2020 Accepted: March 11, 2020Available online: April 28, 2020Journal homepage:http://lssp.dspu.edu.ua/p-ISSN 2313-2094e-ISSN 2413-2039© 2020 The Author. Human studies. Series of Pedagogy published by Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University & Open Journal Systems. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). The article examines the main aspects of children and young people upbringing in the Christian spirit in the Volhynia province. The author analyzed a lot of archival documents. It is explained that in the schools of that region schoolchildren studied the Scripture, children were involved in church worship, pursued Christian education activities. It is substantiated that representatives of public associations and religious fraternities were involved in the education of children and young people. The role of the representatives of the Volhynian clergy in the formation of the Christian outlook of the young generation was investigated. It is explained that many scientists have studied the problem of religious education. The author analyzed in detail the works of G. Yermak, G. Kotlomanitova, I. Myshchyshyn. It has been found that the primary purpose of the spiritual institutions of the past was to form a special type of thinking ‒ the sacred one. The upbringing of children in Christian morality in Ukraine goes back to the times of Kievan Rus when in 988 Prince Vladimir proclaimed Christianity the main religion of the state. It gave a great impetus to the development of education, sciences and arts. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the Volhynia province became a part of the Russian state the religious education, and therefore up-bringing in the spirit of Christianity, continued to develop. Orthodoxy was the main religion in the Volhynia province. The religious education was provided in class and after school. The younger generation read the Bible and books on moral and ethical topics. Students’ books had texts about compassion, charity, love and tolerance. The children sang in the church choir. The church fraternity representatives opened elementary schools and Sunday schools, held moral conversations. The largest church organizations were in Lutsk, Kremenets, and Ostroh. The Christian education is in tune with the modern humanistic orientation of the education. So the principal ways of introducing the Orthodox pedagogy into the modern educational institutions are determined in the article.Acknowledgments. The author is grateful to the staff of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.Funding. The author received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

Elizabethan Separatists, Puritan Conformists and the Bible

Sixteenth-century English separatists and Puritan conformists held a great deal in common but one simple distinction set them apart. Separatists recognised no other authority but Scripture: not logic, philosophy or reason; not tradition; not any human writing. Puritan conformists allowed a place for those authorities, though subordinate to Scripture. That distinction shaped printed debate over church government and worship. Separatists worked within an ‘all-or-nothing mentality’; in response, conformists were forced to adopt a ‘bare-minimum mentality’, which was quite different from how they argued in the opposite direction against the bishops of the Church of England.

TEKNIK PERMAINAN IMPROVISASI KEYBOARD PADA LAGU KIDUNG JEMAAT NO. 375 “SAYA MAU IKUT YESUS” DI GEREJA HKI HUTAGURGUR

The purpose of this research is to add insight into the playing of keyboard instruments and what techniques can be used in playing the keyboard one of them improvised music playing techniques by playing music in whorship in the Church. The benefits of the research to explain the technique of improvised keyboard music playing in the accompaniment of processional worship at the HKI Curch Hutagurgur. Applied to this improvisation technique using the song of the Curch numbre 375 “I Want To Follow Jesus” during the procession worship at the HKI Curch Hutagurgur. The study uses qualitative research that makes direct observations and gets information from several related source. The author lifts the song “I Want To Follow Jesus”and apply it through a keyboard instrument using an improvised playing music to add some melodies that are not in the original song sheet so that the atmosphere of entering the Church is more enjoying the music. The method used for this improvised music playing yechnique through melodi scale and chord transfer called chord bridges to go to the next chord on the song I Want To Follow Jesus. In improvised playing dont have to match the writen scores, because improvisation is a spontaneous idea that is created directly unconciously and without planed.The information contained in this thesis is the method using and appliying improvised playing techniques through stages wich is explained in playing music especially in the field of instruments keyboard in the use of improvisation first know the song that will be played to in the playing of improvisation more broadly in playing the melodies wich increase through the idea appear alone on the chord song moves. Perferably inside the Church player is sick of having to practice more in music playing techniques espesially on keyboard instruments because in aChurch instrument the most importaint keyboard in accompanying Church worship.

Mening och samhörighet

Meaning and Belonging: Young Adults in Today’s Pentecostal Congregations in Sweden
 The focus of this article is to explore where and how young adults in the contemporary Swedish Pentecostal movement experience meaning and belonging in their congregation and what impact meaning and belonging have for them. This article builds on a study from 2019, in which young adults in today’s Swedish Pentecostal congregations described their beliefs and their congregational life; Gemenskap, individualism och andlighet. Tro och församlingsliv bland unga vuxna i den samtida svenska pingströrelsen (Sand, 2019). The data was collected through interviews and a survey, in which both young-adult members and leaders were questioned. The results from the 2019-study will in this article be analysed and discussed based on Meredith B. McGuire’s theory on meaning and belonging in Religion: The Social Context (2008). In addition, the results will also be compared with related research. The results show the young adults mostly experience meaning and belonging in the smaller gatherings the congregations offer. The smaller groups offer the opportunity to form close bonds to other members and the possibility to strengthen their faith. The groups also work as a “safe haven” where the members can share their everyday life and personal challenges. Although the large parish community in the congregations can provide both meaning and belonging, such as volunteering in the church activities, worship and prayer during the Sunday services; they do not produce that to the same extent as the smaller gatherings. This article shows that the experience of meaning and belonging is important both for the development of the young adults’ faith and their belonging in the congregations.

Crisis factors in social positions of Ukrainian archival arrangements XIX - beginning of XX century

The purpose of the research is to determine the main causes and consequences of the emergence of crisis phenomena in the social positions of the Ukrainian clergy in the XIX – early XX centuries; the transformation of the clergy and peasantry relations, changes in the daily values of the Ukrainian clergy. Reforming Ukrainian agrarian society has led to a change in social attitudes and values among all strata of the population. Clergy, defending the imperial social traditions, lost credibility and control over the Ukrainian people. The priests had to perform many social functions, but the weakening of the practice of patriarchal traditions, the intensive displacement of many outdated elements from family life put new challenges to the clergy. Changes in the social positions of the clergy were manifested in the spread of anti-social behavior, the transformation of the traditional daily life of the spiritual elite and local priests. Mistrust of the clergy was intensified by forcible Russification in church worship. In the conditions of capitalization of society, clergy were not able to maintain their influence on the majority of the population of Ukrainian provinces.
 Keywords: clergy, social, antagonism, crisis, anti-social, reform, peasantry