Sound of the Liturgy

How Words Work In Worship

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Cally Hammond looks at how words function as carriers of semantic content (communicating facts and doctrines; telling stories; articulating emotions and spiritual perceptions) and then contrasts this with words as they function as physical entities striking the ear, so as to evoke emotions, memories and spiritual perceptions. This basic antithesis between words as carriers of meaning and words as evokers of feeling, emotion, and memory leads to four chapters that explore in fascinating detail the four main aspects of liturgical speech: posture, repetition, rhythm and punctuation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-01-15
Mått156 x 234 x 12 mm
Vikt327 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagSPCK Publishing
ISBN9780281069545

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Her book will be of interest and importance to all who leas worship or wish to understand the nature of liturgy more deeply.[...]For Hammond, worship is an action of the whole person, physical as much as spiritual. Posture and physical effort are the basis of sound.[...]Worship that is "in spirit and in truth", that is worthy of God, in so far as human effort ever can be demands the highest human skills that we can offer, Hammond insists. It needs premeditation, practice, choreography, rhythm, repetition, and physical exertion. She confronts head on the pernicious assumption in our culture that what is "performed" savours of insincerity and deceit, and our nagging doubt whether repeating inherited words can have authenticity; and she assails the cult of false [...] because predictable spontaneity. She wants to bring back mystique [...] as a classist and patristic scholar Hammond is sympathetic to the value that the acient world place don the skills of rhetoric - namely, how to secure an entrance in the minds of your listeners for the message you want them to take on board.[...]Hammond's criticisms of aspect of 'Common Worship' are restrained, but strike home. The minimal use of biblical use of directions for gesture and posture, compared with earlier official texts, plays down the physical dimensions of worship.[...]Hammond believes that rhythm and stress are the most important factors in making liturgy memorable. [...]As Hammond puts it, "prayer with the body becomes an act of public witness to the faith"