Younger liturgical movement

Younger liturgical movement (also: second liturgical movement) is a collective term for several different liturgical movements in the Protestant churches in Germany, which endeavored to renew the worship service after the First World War . It was given this name to distinguish it from the older liturgical movement , which it replaced in terms of time and program.

The following are to be mentioned:

• The circle around the liturgical attempts by the Marburg philosopher Rudolf Otto has formed
• The Berneuchen movement in connection with the later created Michael Brotherhood under Karl Bernhard Ritter and Wilhelm Stählin
• The church work Alpirsbach under Richard Gölz and Friedrich Buchholz
• The high church movement under Friedrich Heiler
• Liturgical conferences in the individual regional churches, of which the Lower Saxony Liturgical Conference (LKN) was the most important.

The most important results, which had a profound effect on the congregations, were the overcoming of the use of private agendas , the elaboration of the agendas of the 1950s, the rediscovery of the sacraments of the Lord's Supper and baptism for the congregational worship service and the church year and its reading order as a liturgical principle.

literature

• Alfred Niebergall: Agende. In: TRE . Volume 1, p. 755; Volume 2, p. 91, here: Volume 2, p. 67-69 ( The Younger Liturgical Movement ) ( Google books )