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Book Review: Philip H. Pfatteicher, The People’s Theology: Classic Hymns and Christian Formation

Book Review: Philip H. Pfatteicher, The People’s Theology: Classic Hymns and Christian Formation 1085970 ATR0010.1177/00033286221085970Anglican Theological ReviewBook Reviews book-review2022 Book Reviews Anglican Theological Review 2022, Vol. 104(2) 217 –244 Book Reviews © The Author(s) 2022 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286221085970 DOI: 10.1177/00033286221085970 journals.sagepub.com/home/atr The People’s Theology: Classic Hymns and Christian Formation. By Philip H. Pfatteicher. Chicago, IL: GIA Publications, 2020. xxx + 418 pp. $38.95 (paper). This book by the late Philip H. Pfatteicher (1935–2021), is the concluding installment in his four-part study of the liturgy, the first three volumes of which are The School of the Church: Worship and Christian Formation (1995), Liturgical Spirituality (1997), and Journey into the Heart of God: Living the Liturgical Year (2013). In this present work, Pfatteicher aims “to show how classic hymns of the Church provide a remarkably com- plete course in theology, systematic and practical, and do it in a pleasing and memorable way” (p. xviii). By “classic hymn,” Pfatteicher means the historic repertoire of hymns that includes ancient and medieval hymns, Lutheran hymns, a sprinkling of Eastern Orthodox sources, and the vast body of English-language hymns written before the mid- twentieth century. Of the hymns included in this study, Pfatteicher claims that they “have stood the test of time, endured changing taste and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

Book Review: Philip H. Pfatteicher, The People’s Theology: Classic Hymns and Christian Formation

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Anglican Theological Review , Volume 104 (2): 1 – Apr 1, 2022
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1085970 ATR0010.1177/00033286221085970Anglican Theological ReviewBook Reviews book-review2022 Book Reviews Anglican Theological Review 2022, Vol. 104(2) 217 –244 Book Reviews © The Author(s) 2022 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286221085970 DOI: 10.1177/00033286221085970 journals.sagepub.com/home/atr The People’s Theology: Classic Hymns and Christian Formation. By Philip H. Pfatteicher. Chicago, IL: GIA Publications, 2020. xxx + 418 pp. $38.95 (paper). This book by the late Philip H. Pfatteicher (1935–2021), is the concluding installment in his four-part study of the liturgy, the first three volumes of which are The School of the Church: Worship and Christian Formation (1995), Liturgical Spirituality (1997), and Journey into the Heart of God: Living the Liturgical Year (2013). In this present work, Pfatteicher aims “to show how classic hymns of the Church provide a remarkably com- plete course in theology, systematic and practical, and do it in a pleasing and memorable way” (p. xviii). By “classic hymn,” Pfatteicher means the historic repertoire of hymns that includes ancient and medieval hymns, Lutheran hymns, a sprinkling of Eastern Orthodox sources, and the vast body of English-language hymns written before the mid- twentieth century. Of the hymns included in this study, Pfatteicher claims that they “have stood the test of time, endured changing taste and

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