칼빈의 제네바 시편찬송가

• 영문명: Calvin's Genevan Psalter: Evaluation of it and some Proposals for Hymns in Korean Presbyterian Churches in 21st Century
• 발행기관: 개혁신학회
• 저자명: 오광만(Oh, Kwang-Man)
• 간행물 정보: 『개혁논총』제11권, 87~128쪽, 전체 42쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 종교학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2009.09.30

영문 초록

Calvin's Genevan Psalter was the fruit of one of the spirits of Reformation, namely sola scriptura, in which Calvin emphasized the right attitude and spirit of worship. He said, by having changed visible worship of Roman Catholic church to audible one, that singing psalms in public worship was to exalt our hearts, to offer hymns and prayers and to give thanks to God. Calvin thought psalms had to be translated into people's language in order that everyone could learn and sing hymns easily. We can find several Calvin's spirits of public hymns in Genevan Psalter. Firstly, Calvin understood hymns in public worship as prayer. Secondly, Psalms were inspired by the Spirit of God, which is said to be sacred songs, to teach us the right means and attitude to give sacrifices of hymns and therefore to be the best way to sing the glory of God. According to Calvin, Psalms were to sing in unison without accompanying any other musical instruments in order that people might sing spiritually. Calvin emphasized texts of the songs rather than tunes in order to concentrate our minds on the biblical text itself. After Calvin, Genevan Psalter began to be sung widely in everywhere by every reformers. For more than four hundred years Genevan Psalter has been identified with the hymn of the Reformed Church. Calvin reformed church even in the area of singing songs. He even limited to psalms in singing hymns in public worship. He excluded any other songs made by human beings, which were considered to be frivolous and apt to accept heretic elements into the church hymns to ignore the Chritological hymns in the New Testament. And also he understood hymns from the perspective of prayer, so that he could not help excluding the musical elements in singing psalms. Nevertheless, we must praise Calvin, who restored the spirit of worship, which is to focus our hearts on God rather than on human beings. We, members of presbyterian churches, must identify ourselves to be the followers of reformers, especially of John Calvin, by singing psalms in public worship as well as in our daily lives.

목차

1 들어가는 말

2 개혁파 신학과 칼빈의『제네바 시편찬송가』

3 칼빈의 시편찬송가와 그 정신에 대한 평가

4 21세기 한국장로교회 찬송을 위한 제안

5 나가는 말

키워드

Calvin Hymns Psalmody Psalter Worship