Talk service

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The conversation service as a dialogical sermon or dialogical worship service is a newer form of worship. In its form as a dialogue between people, it represents an alternative to the preaching by the pastor in a monological sermon . This means that the worshipers do not listen to the pastor's lecture in silence, but are instead involved in the process or follow a prepared conversation between, for example, two pastors .

Historical

The conversational worship service established itself in the 1960s and 1970s, against the background of social upheaval, in the course of reform efforts of the worship service in Germany.

The sermon in monological form seemed out of date in an environment that was characterized by democratization and opinion-forming processes.

One of the important centers from which the reform movement started was Frankfurt with the Frankfurt School . Individual personalities also exerted a strong influence, such as Dieter Trautwein with his dissertation “The learning process of worship”.

Dramaturgy of various types of worship

Trautwein understands the conversation service as a learning process-oriented event that should enable learning processes with the concrete implementation of dialogue and conversation.

The conversation proceeds according to a pre-structured process that includes learning psychological and group psychological elements. It is planned in advance by a team and introduced into the service. This is not an open-ended discussion of, for example, a biblical text, but rather relates to concrete situations and topics of current political events and aims at a commitment to change society. In socially explosive, controversial situations, these forms could become increasingly attractive.

Another type of conversational worship is dialogue sermon or dialogue worship. Two people perform a pre-planned conversation as a staged form of the monological sermon presentation. This lecture is not open-ended as in the learning process-oriented approach, but is geared towards conveying positions. This corresponds more to the approach of the monological proclamation, but in a more flexible form.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Trautwein: Learning process of worship . Burckhardths.-Laetare, O., Gelnhausen / Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-7664-0004-5 , pp. 370 (First edition was in 1972 on the basis of the dissertation in 1971 at the University of Tübingen.).

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