@article{Hough_2014, place={Victoria, British Columbia, Canada}, title={Martin Luther and Musically Expressed Theology}, volume={11}, url={https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/Illumine/article/view/13315}, DOI={10.18357/illumine.hougha.1112012}, abstractNote={This paper seeks a reappraisal of Martin Luther’s complex understanding of theology’s place in the social and political reformation of 16th–century Germany. Here I seek to reintroduce an element of that theology that has been largely absent from mainstream scholarship: music. Building on Robin Leaver’s influential 2007 work, Luther’s Liturgical Music, wherein he argues that Luther’s liturgical song–writing ought to be understood theologically, I will demonstrate how the reformer sought to use a musically expressed theology to build a foundation of faith among the German laity– a prerequisite, he believed, to a successful reformation of Christian religion and society. Luther’s answer to the failures of the early evangelical Reformation was an educational programme centred on teaching a theology of the Psalms through music.}, number={1}, journal={Illumine: Journal of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society }, author={Hough, Adam}, year={2014}, month={Nov.}, pages={27-49} }