Habil.-Schr. Univ. Münster (Westfalen), 2007.

anglicky The diploma thesis Contemporary Trends of Protestant Liturgical Music in the Czech Republic deals mainly with both - musical and unmusical - element of contemporary praise and worship songs used at protestant Sunday services. The aim of praise and worship music in a Sunday service, is to give praise to God, as well as it was in biblical times. Therefore the first chapter of the thesis presents observations about music in the Bible and examines its connections to non-musical ways of praising God, which throws light upon the situation today. The part of the thesis which makes the reader familiar with current situation of protestant liturgical music in the Czech Republic, points out weaknesses in present-day song writing and shows a need of musical education for Christians, who take part in performing music at Church, compose songs and translate them from other languages. There is also a notable trend of adapting hymnbook songs, which therefore become friendlier to younger generation who prefers livelier music. Although there is not any board for protestant liturgical music, there are several influential personalities, whose view on various components of music liturgy and relationship to God's praise are presented in the third chapter. All of them agree on the fact that praising God through...

anglicky Annotation In my thesis I deal with the Confession in European nad especially Czech Protestantism, its conception, form and transformations in history. The focus of my work is to look at the Confession in the Reformation and its further development. The work is divided into four major chapters: (1) The Confession, (2) The Confession and reformers, (3) The Cofession and reformist religions, (4) The Confession of contemporary Protestantism. Each of these chapters is further divided into subsections. In conclusion I describe the effort to reintroduce private Confession as solid form of church life and I think about reasons why nowadays in Protestant churches private Confession used only sporadically. Keywords: confession; Reformation; the Church of the Brethren; Luther; Calvin; Protestantism; Sin; Forgiveness; Absolution.

Zugl.: Heidelberg, Univ., Diss., 2009

Obwohl das Reformationsdrama per definitionem die Reformation der christlichen Kirche voraussetzt und damit als neue Gattung unter gewandelten gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen firmiert, steht es doch stofflich wie formal in einer langen Tradition, die zumindest in Versatzstücken darin präsent sein dürfte. Gerade das sächsische Reformationsdrama hebt sich von den anderen Reformationsdramen andere Regionen durch seinen gemäßigten Ton ab. Durch seine moral-didaktischen Bemühungen bildet es einen Gegenpol zu den teilweise recht polemischen Kampfstücken, wie sie z.B. in der schweizerischen Frühphase zu finden sind. Beachtenswert für den sächsischen Raum ist auch das Faktum, dass hier die meisten Verfasser in enger Verbindung mit Wittenberg standen und zumindest zeitweise pädagogisch wirksam waren. So bilden sie einerseits einen Gegensatz zur Handwerkerdichtung Nürnbergs und erlauben anderseits eine genauere Untersuchung der Aufführung- und Wirkungsgeschichte, wurden sie doch (fast) alle für eine konkrete Aufführungssituation geschrieben.

Zugl.: Tübingen, Univ., Diss., 2002

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-404) and index.

Zugl.: Tübingen, Habil.-Schr., 2007

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität der Bundeswehr, München, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-260) and indexes.

Zugleich: Diss. Bern. / Titel der Diss.: Das religiöse Kinderlied im 19. Jahrhundert im deutschsprachigen reformierten Raum der Schweiz. Literaturverz.