Title: Lectures Explore 'Worship in the 21st Century'
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

February 2, 1999

LECTURES EXPLORE 'WORSHIP IN THE 21st CENTURY'
99-04-18-FI

     CHICAGO (ELCA) Top Lutheran and Roman Catholic liturgists will
explore "Worship in the 21st Century" through a series of lectures at
seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
     The 1999 Hein-Fry lecturers will be Dr. Mary Collins, OSB, chair of
the Department of Religion and Religious Education, The Catholic
University of America, Washington, D.C., and the Rev. Gordon W. Lathrop,
professor of liturgy and chaplain, Lutheran Theological Seminary at
Philadelphia.
     The lecturers have the task of answering some key questions about
how Christians will worship God from the growing diversity of cultures in
North America, such as "What are the principles of the cultural adaptation
of Christian liturgy? When is it faithful? When is it 'dumbing down' or
misleading?"
     Collins begins the series Feb. 4 at the Lutheran Theological
Southern Seminary, Columbia, S.C.; Feb. 16 at Luther Seminary, St. Paul,
Minn.; Feb. 25-26 at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley,
Calif.; and March 9 at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.
     Lathrop continues the discourse Feb. 11 at the Lutheran Theological
Seminary at Gettysburg, Pa.; April 22 at Wartburg Theological Seminary,
Dubuque, Iowa; April 28 at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago; and
May 5 at Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio.
     The Hein-Fry Lecture Series predates the ELCA which was formed in
1988. The endowed theological lecture series fosters original scholarship
and enriches theological dialogue throughout the church. It combines the
Dr. Carl Christian Hein Memorial Seminary Lectures of the former American
Lutheran Church and the Franklin Clark Fry Theological Lectures of the
former Lutheran Church in America.
     The series is coordinated through the ELCA Division for Ministry.


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