Luther Reed

The career of LUTHER D. REED (1873-1972) was marked by roles as pastor, professor, and seminary president. In the midst of the frontier tradition, he, with the assistance of many others, helped Lutherans in America recover their liturgical inheritance. He was a founder of the Lutheran Liturgical Association in 1898 and is best known for his monumental The Lutheran Liturgy: A Study of the Common Service of the Lutheran Church in America (1947).

This is the sixth in a series of monographs in the Shaping American Lutheran Church Music series, published by the Center for Church Music, Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, Illinois, highlighting persons, movements, and events which have helped shape the course of church music among Lutherans in North America.