Liturgical Renewal 1966–2020—A Mainline Protestant Perspective.

They have provided new perspectives on the phenomena of contemporary praise and worship music, especially in the context of evangelical Protestant worshiping communities, the ways in which such music has come to be equated with worship, and what such music-making practices mean for the formation of congregations.[22] Perhaps the most pressing challenge to the work of liturgical reform today is what to make of the sudden shift, prompted by the Covid pandemic, to offering worship services via digital media. Keywords: ecumenism; inclusive language; liturgical reform; liturgical theology; Methodist; Protestant; transcultural EN ecumenism inclusive language liturgical reform liturgical theology Methodist Protestant transcultural 4 9 6 11/28/22 20221001 NES 221001 I have been invited to offer I a i mainline Protestant perspective on liturgical renewal and liturgical scholarship over the past fifty years. That literature has received relatively little attention from liturgical scholars, while it, perhaps more than any official denominational liturgical revision, reshaped conversations in churches about "effective" worship and either contributed to or exacerbated the "worship wars" of that period. [Extracted from the article]