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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian sacred works & liturgy > Liturgy
The contributions of Dietrich Bonhoeffer to the fields of
systematics, ethics, sociology, and theology have become well known
in recent decades. What has been overlooked, however, is the
significant contribution he has also made to the study and
interpretation of the Psalms. Bonhoeffer's approach to the Psalms
is built upon an understanding of its relationship to prayer and to
Jesus Christ the Crucified One. Employing methods drawn from both
premodern and modern exegetes, Bonhoeffer develops a Christological
interpretation of the Psalms which, in certain key aspects, has not
been seen in the history of interpretation. His is an
interpretation informed by the historical reality of Jesus Christ
praying the prayers of the Psalms in his incarnation. As the church
of today prays the Psalms, it is encouraged by understanding that
they are also praying the very words which Jesus prayed. The Psalms
are not only the prayerbook of the church, more fundamentally, they
are the prayerbook of Jesus Christ. In this book, Pribbenow
explores Bonhoeffer's unique Christological interpretation of the
Psalms by means of a concentrated analysis of its development,
coherence, and significance, tracing it from its formation at
Berlin University, into the years of development at the Confessing
Church Preacher's Seminary in Finkenwalde, and through the months
of interrogation and imprisonment at the hands of the Third Reich.
This book concerns an examination of the totality of the musical
experience with a view to restoring the soul within it. It starts
with an analysis of the strands in the landscape of contemporary
spirituality. It examines the descriptors spiritual but not
religious, and spiritual and religious, looking in particular at
the place of faith narratives in various spiritualities. These
strands are linked with the domains of the musicking experience:
Materials, Expression, Construction and Values. The book sets out a
model of the spiritual experience as a negotiated relationship
between the musicker and the music. It looks in detail at various
models of musicking drawn from music therapy, ethnomusicology,
musicology and cultural studies. It examines the relationship
between Christianity and music as well as examining some practical
projects showing the effect of various Value systems in musicking,
particularly in intercultural dialogue. It finally proposes an
ecclesiology of musical events that includes both orate and
literate traditions and so is supportive of inclusive community.
Twelve Anglicists (from France, America, Poland, and Romania) who
met in Bucharest to debate Religion and Spirituality in Literature
and the Arts at the ACED Conference in June 2015 join their voices
in demonstrating the vitally spiritual power of Christianity in the
recently modern world (in twentieth and twenty-first century
literature and society). Poetry (by Eliot, Yeats, Heaney, David
Jones, Hill, G.M. Brown) and fiction (Henry James, Lodge, Evelyn
Waugh, Flannery O'Connor, Rose Macaulay and Ron Hansen),
interpreted with (Thomist and more recent) theology (J.H. Newman's,
Paul Tillich's, Hans Urs von Balthasar's, De Certeau's) and
philosophy (from Plato to Gadamer) in mind, give heartening
suggestions for transcending, along Catholic, Anglican, and
Orthodox lines, the modern secular ethos.
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