In tracing theological approaches to music in the era between Luther and Bach, the author reveals the variety and tension in German Lutheran theology.
Joyce Irwin received her PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University, has taught at the University of Georgia an.
The introduction of Italian Baroque style into church music, however, evoked controversies which pitted Pietism against Orthodoxy and preachers against musicians.
Both dogmatism and devotionalism helped shape Lutheran spirituality.
In tracing theological approaches to music in the era between Luther and Bach, the author reveals the variety and tension in German Lutheran theology