Bible Question:
what verses apply to "bring back the black robe regiment?" |
Bible Answer: Hi, oldsargesplane... Welcome to the forum! I suspect what you are talking about is an expression that harkens back to a time when the pastors in American pulpits once wore black robes or vestments during services. Nowadays this may still be observed in "high church" congregations; i.e., Greek Orthodox, Lutheran, Episcopal, etc. Sometimes it is dependent on the practices of a particular congregation or even the choice of the pastor. In Europe the cap and robe we only see in graduation ceremonies was donned at graduation and worn continuously thereafter. It signified that the wearer was a man of learning. In the Reformation, Protestant churches generally dispensed with the traditional vestments common to the Roman Catholic priest. Nonetheless, a pastor would commonly attain a Doctorate of Divinity in the universities of the day. Thus, the robe and cap would be worn from then on – not just in the pulpit. As the traditions in the secular world changed, some of these practices remained in the churches. Consequently, you're hearing this phrase that remembers the practice from colonial days. Check Google images, for example, of men like “George Whitfield” and “John Wesley.” I think their dress was fairly typical of ministers of that day. I suspect that the people calling for a return to the “black robe regiment” are simply looking to a time when the church and culture were more tightly interrelated than we are accustomed to seeing in our highly secularized society. In Him, Doc |
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