{"id":7144,"date":"2025-02-15T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=7144"},"modified":"2025-02-16T05:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T05:15:18","slug":"spring-2025-featured-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=7144","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2025 Featured Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7144\" class=\"elementor elementor-7144\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-05bdd1c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"05bdd1c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-df8adb7\" data-id=\"df8adb7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42cf43f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"42cf43f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Singing Church History: Introducing the Christian Story through Hymn\nTexts.<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f32268c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"f32268c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-591a4ef\" data-id=\"591a4ef\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27abc7c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"27abc7c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>By Paul Rorem. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2024. 228 pp.<\/h4><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6876 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/paul-rorem-400x400-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/paul-rorem-400x400-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/paul-rorem-400x400-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/paul-rorem-400x400-1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>When I taught church history courses for Fuller Seminary, I always\u00a0included a segment in each class session called \u201cVoices from the Heart.\u201d It was a brief devotional exercise that asked students to sing a hymn, reflect on a reading, and join in a prayer drawn from whatever period we might be discussing that day. Students consistently expressed appreciation for\u00a0 this aspect of the course.<\/p><p>In his preface to Singing Church History, Paul Rorem admits that he often did something similar by asking students to sing a hymn in the middle of a class\u2014partly to rouse drowsy students, but for a pedagogical purpose as well. He understands that while we often cite the adage lex orandi, lex credendi, it is equally true that the law of song is the law of belief. This book shares that insight beyond the seminary classroom.<\/p><p><em>Read the full review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Richard-O.-Johnson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I taught church history courses for Fuller Seminary, I always included a segment in each class session called \u201cVoices from the Heart.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7184,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions\/7184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}