To Christian, to give right worship is more important than anything else. Now that interests and concerns to renewal of Korean churches' worship have been increased since 80's, what worship music should be? Nowadays Koreanization of worship music whic...
To Christian, to give right worship is more important than anything else. Now that interests and concerns to renewal of Korean churches' worship have been increased since 80's, what worship music should be? Nowadays Koreanization of worship music which was lively in 60's are tardy and church music department in few schools are being closed. Thus, it is necessary to define theologically and academically about what is standard for using C. C. M., C. C. D., other visual media, and so on which are now overflowing. This research utilized fractal theory for the diagnosis and forecast of worship music. Self-similarity, which means a part and the whole have similar disposition, is especial characteristic of fractal theory. Hence, to grasp total understanding, I summarized contents and problems regarding worship, church music, and worship music. And then, I dealt with the examples of praise (worship music) which are present in the Bible. Especially for more concrete and musical adaptation, I covered verse from Ephesians 5:19 with special intention. I introduced the general contents of fractal theory, proved that fractal theory could be applied not only to science but also to worship music efficiently, and considered the theory's relationship with and worship, church music, and worship music. I tried to examine how worship music's complicated interaction, which is caused by lots of elements, turned out or will turn out into surprising order. Especially, I focused on concept of emergence in fractal theory and presented examples of emergence in the Bible, history of church music, and today's Korean worships. Since I estimated that style of 'praise and worship' has been emerged in recent Korean church, I analyzed this by the method of metaphor and fractal tree. Consequently, cause for the emergence was use of modern cultural elements. Especially, I analyzed that C. C. M. has been important attractor for the emergence because this attracted young people and let them to express their youth. In addition, to assign much time on congregation hymn (sing-a-long) caused synergy effect. However, I evaluate that style of 'praise and worship' does not achieved perfect self-similarity with elements of worship music which were discovered in the Bible and the examples of emergences. Therefore, I ponder upon improvement points for perfect self-similarity so that the emergence will function appropriately. This is because trifle difference would cause very different result called a butterfly effect. There have been few problems concerning style of 'praise and worship' such as careless imitation, indiscrete use of C. C. M. or secular instruments. But there also have been self-reflection and self-organization process. And from the beginning of 2000's, the style of 'praise and worship' has been divided into 4 ways; more settled 'praise and worship', worship which includes elements of 'praise and worship', 'modern worship', and C. C. M. concert. Finally, for the example, I introduced three churches out of thirty where I had visited recently. I suggest interests and attempts toward other styles of worship to each church because various attempts will lead to another emergence. Since it is expected to emerge for better worship system if advantages of each worship style could be exchanged and improved by interactions. Also, much efforts and devotions are called for the change because emergence will happen when complexity of system increases. It has been less than 20 years so far since the introduction of complex system theory. Also, history of researches that used fractal theory is not very long. Under this circumstance, this research is an attempt to adapt fractal theory in the music field.