September 2004

Contents & Foreword

History and Aesthetics

• Liturgy in the Absence of Hippolytus - Paul F. Bradshaw
• The Liturgy of Theory: Lessons on Beauty and Craft - Christopher A. Dustin
• A Response to Christopher Dustin’s The Liturgy of Theory - Nicholas Wolterstorff
• Seeing and Speaking: A Reply to Professor Wolterstoff - Christopher A. Dustin
• A Medieval Jewish View of the Catholic Liturgy - Peter Jeffery

Partnerships in Liturgical Planning

• Clergy and Musicians Creating Vibrant Worship Together: A Reflection on the Art and Spirituality of Liturgical Planning - Janet B. Campbell
• Clergy and Musicians Creating Vibrant Worship Together: A Musician’s Perspective - J. Melvin Butler
• A Conversation on the Contemporary Church and Traditional Worship - John M. Buchanan and John W. Sherer

Hymns, Anthems, and Liturgical Sources

• A Publisher’s Perspective - Robert J. Batastini
• Treasures New and Old: Developing Resources for Renewing Worship - Michael L. Burk
• Court Poet and Pastoral Prophet: The Contemporary Church and its Song-Makers - Brian Wren
• A Composer’s Reflections - Lee Hoiby

New Visions

• The Contemporary Church and the Real Presence of Women: Of Liturgy, Labor, and Gendered Lives - Teresa Berger
• Richer, Not Dumber! The Key to Participation - Richard and Scott King
• Architecture for Worship: Re-thinking Sacred Space in the Contemporary United States of America - Richard S. Vosko

Foreword

At the heart of the Institute’s work at Yale and in the world lies its Colloquium, where the entire Institute faculty and students gather every Wednesday afternoon to bear witness to the varied patterns of our interdisciplinary life. The semester-long speaker series generally coheres around a theme, sometimes contemporary, sometimes historical, sometimes artistic or musical, sometimes theological. During the second semester we listen to student presentations arising from recital, coursework, travel, and independent studies. Colloquium is a vibrant, singing mosaic of our varied institutional life, and in it we engage with the elemental problems facing performers, scholars, and practitioners who work with the subjects of sacred music, worship, and the arts.

This year our students have been patiently dubbing the audio tapes of years of Colloquium presentations. Once they are ready, they will constitute an extraordinary archive of knowledge and performance. In recent years we have begun to videotape Colloquium, and it is clear that the conversations we have there are often as interesting as the presentations themselves. This new journal, called (of course) Colloquium, offers to a wider audience the chance to read, and to hear and see the results of the year’s strivings. There is a list of the students who made their presentations during the academic year. Also included are some of the other lectures sponsored by the Institute, and other papers to fill out either the historical or the theological side of our efforts.

The issue is also available in print. The DVD included with the print version is of course just a taste of the many conversations we have at the Institute, but we want to invite you to be a part of them. We here look forward to speaking with all of you, and have established a Colloquium commentary feature online for your responses. In next year’s edition, we will publish excerpts from your comments, and hope in this way to involve our readership as well.
As editors, we are grateful to the Institute students, faculty, and staff for their energetic commentary and tireless efforts in helping us bring this work to you, a work that has called upon the many disciplines represented in the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, providing common ground for scholarship and practice in worship, music, and all the arts.

Margot E. Fassler, 
Director, Yale Institute of Sacred Music & Tangeman Professor of Music History
Bryan Spinks
, Professor of Liturgical Studies
 & Chair of the Program in Liturgical Studies