Sentences with word «hymnody»

«Ours is not an age of hymnody.»

The church proclaimed and lived its tolerance while adopting a very traditional Protestant hymnody and worship style and a classical instrumental and choral repertoire.

In the process they found themselves in contact with people who not only had musical tastes that were more to the liturgical side, but who — even when seeking worship «reform» — looked to the developing body of folk masses and new hymnody rather than to the Fanny Crosby — Ira Sankey — Francis Havergal — Homer Rodeheaver canon or the world of Gospel music.

Since much traditional hymnody is based upon paraphrases of great biblical texts, the power of those hymns is somewhat lost on a generation that is unfamiliar with those texts.

«After getting into hymnody I've had to take a step back and wonder what I was singing about all those years before.

He returns at the end of his article to the hope that Mormon hymnody points subtly toward the ontological gap that Mormon doctrine denies.

Renewed emphasis on hymnody, psalmody and service music is encouraging.

• The substitution of orthodox liturgies, sacraments, and hymnody with radical feminist rituals and songs that focus on women's suffering and victimization and obsessively glorify women's bodies and sexuality.

Paul uses the pattern of gnostic hymnody and liturgy to express the meaning of Christ.

Eastern rites huddle alongside liturgical practices (hardly a peripheral issue in the East) disfigured by rebarbative banality, by hymnody both insipid and heterodox, and by a style of worship that looks flippant if not blasphemous.

Up to now the society has often seemed a more conservative than innovative force in American hymnody, issuing pamphlets of «new» hymns redolent of a bygone era.

One way to mark the influence of evangelical hymnody is to ask: When did modern evangelicalism arise in the English - speaking world?

There has been an affinity for the «gospel song,» combined with a tradition of classical Wesleyan hymnody and Methodist ritual.

Writing with Paul Cain in The Word and the Spirit (Kingsway), RT Kendall observed that «The greatest hymnody this century has seen has emerged from the charismatic movement».

About Blog A discussion of Anglican hymnody, chants and other service music in the broader context of liturgical Christian music.

Lutherans today are both more sophisticated and more liturgically minded than they were in my youth and so they are less tolerant of the sentimental nineteenth - century gospel songs that for so long dominated Protestant hymnody, but they will now and then allow those of us at mid-life or beyond to sing again the songs we grew up with but which more informed tastes tell us (and we try to tell ourselves) we should not have liked as much as we did.

As Peter Gomes said, ours is not an age of hymnody.

It was experiential religion, whether Catholic Holy Week liturgies in Rome, black Baptist call - and - response preaching and hymnody in Harlem, or Anabaptist communitarianism, that never failed to grab him.

Early Lutheranism never let its critical theological distinction between justification and sanctification moot the question of ethics, as a cursory reading even of the hymnody would reveal.

I can not avoid the suspicion that one reason that neo-orthodoxy did not really renew the mainline churches is that, however much it sobered their theology, it gave them no song to sing and produced no hymnody of note.

Since sacral language exists in English, it should be easy and obvious to use its cadences in Catholic liturgy, Scripture, and hymnody, whether in continuity with historical Anglican practices or not.

Those who were at the society's Chicago convocation were exposed to better examples of this generation's hymnody, and saw a new vitality in the Hymn Society of America that its press releases don't begin to convey.

It's time we do a better job of challenging our people with a mix of hymnody that's selected as much for its textual appropriateness as for its melodic or instrumental familiarity.

He correctly points out that hymnody has had a powerful influence on Anglican consciousness, with hymns providing a teaching modality as well as beauty in the worship of God.

Noteworthy also is the greater use of one another's legacy of hymnody.

Where should we stand with church architecture, hymnody, liturgical elements and the like?

Not even the thousand tongues of Methodist hymnody could have given utterance to the avalanche of thoughts and feelings that erupted in me

Cyberspace will not eclipse the Eucharist or destroy Protestant hymnody, although it might frustrate a lot of liturgists and composers!

Perhaps because it so obviously is a creature of the Bible's salvific themes, the hymnody of evangelicalism defined a religion that was clearer, purer, better balanced, and more sharply focused than much evangelical practice.

But nothing so profoundly defined the faith of evangelicalism as its hymnody: what evangelicals have been is what we have sung.

There has been an explosion of creative new hymnody, reflected and made available in a host of new hymnals.

The future minister was given, so far as possible, some introduction to his later responsibilities as one concerned with church music and hymnody, though even here he was often later at the mercy of his director of music.

Though the Advent use of that entry text has disappeared from our current lectionaries, it still lingers here and there in our hymnody.

The very call to which we may respond, «Here am I,» can come as a mysterious voice in the night, but it typically comes through the words of scripture, either directly or indirectly in preaching, hymnody, liturgy and so forth.

One method used that he considered very effective was the study of the religious response to a good not our own in previous ages, not only through the study of philosophy and theology, but art, literature, hymnody.

Each room in the exhibit begins with a text drawn from Scripture or hymnody that helps to shed light on the aspect of Mary being illustrated by the sixty works of art.

The language of sacrifice, reconciliation and redemption is avoided or discounted, even while it remains inextricably lodged in Bible, liturgy, sacrament and hymnody.