Sentences with phrase «of hymnody»

«Ours is not an age of hymnody.»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Proponents of classic hymns and choral music, scions of alternative new hymnody and «world music,» and lovers of the good ol' «Sankey Doodle» gospel songs have all registered their dismay, as evidenced by the infamous «worship wars» which have plagued churches in recent years.

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.

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.

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.

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

Responsible theological teachers did not take at their face value the pictures of heaven which were found in hymnody, nor did they regard the somewhat extraordinary set of images in Revelation as being an exact representation — indeed, these images, laden with Jewish eschatological conceptions of the nature of the Kingdom of God when there should be «a new heaven and a new earth» were sometimes felt to be slightly embarrassing.

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.

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