Enjoyment and Discernment in the Music of Worship
Nothing is more vital to the genuine enjoyment of worship than the arts. Indeed, our enjoyment of arts such as music (within worship and without) can be said to participate in our enjoyment of God and in the creation of human community. Yet, enjoyment that is responsive to the disciplines of worship...
| Published in: | Theology today |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
2001
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Theology today
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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| Summary: | Nothing is more vital to the genuine enjoyment of worship than the arts. Indeed, our enjoyment of arts such as music (within worship and without) can be said to participate in our enjoyment of God and in the creation of human community. Yet, enjoyment that is responsive to the disciplines of worship requires discernment. Arts in our culture have long exercised their fullest creativity outside the church and have long been tailored, commercially, to satisfy the interests of entertainment and profit. Discerning together how diverse arts can best be employed and enjoyed is thus a task of the church that in the end can only enhance the enjoyment of worship. |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057360105800306 |