Relating to Music
The following is a three stanza excerpt from Dr. Eric Mascall's remix of "Hark, the herald angels sing":Hark, the herald angels sing:
"Bultmann is the latest thing!"
(Or they would if he had not
Demythologized the lot.)
Joyfull, all ye nations, rise,
Glad to existentialize!
Peace on earth and mercy mild,
God and Science reconciled.
Lo, the ancient myths disperse,
Hence, three-storied universe!
Let three-decker pulpits stay:
Bultmann has a lot ...
I happened to come across this album (if we may call it that), which is a recording of the Cistercian Monks of Stift Heilgenkreuz. If ever music could compel one to long to lay cruciform for hours before the altar of the LORD, this does. If ever the human voice could sound forth with symphonies of glory, the voices on ...
A WTS alumnus, Mark Robinson, has made a nice lecture on John Coltrane and the relation of constraint and contingency as it relates to jazz and to human freedom. If you're new to jazz you'll find Mark lectures in a way that will give you not only introduction to jazz but an appreciation for it. The following is the lecture ...
Relearning the analytic through the creativeSinging the Apostles' Creed to a Two Year OldI believe in God the Father __________Big Red BarnAn Adult Applicationehad, shinaim, shalosh, arbah, hamesh, shesh...An Ecclesiastical ...
One of the most brutal sermons and Sunday school lesson for which I have had to prepare is for 1 John 3:11-18. I am confronted with a hollow sounding words that my lips seek to circumscribe as the arid and the acrid exhaust past them. I have found these lyrics as a wet salve caking in the fissures of my ...
This is a fine meditation for those who would understand the gravity of their sin and the magnanimity of their savior.From Psalm 130, written by Martin Luther (1523), melody by Martin Luther (1524).From the depths of woe I raise to thee
the voice of lamentation;
Lord, turn a gracious ear to me
and hear my supplication:
if thou iniquities dost mark,
our secret sins and ...
Ebenezer
text: Samuel T. Francis (1834-1925)O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free;
Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me.
Underneath me, all around me, is the current of thy love;
leading onward, leading homeward, to thy glorious rest above.
O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
Spread his praise from shore to shore;
How he loveth, ever loveth, changeth never, nevermore;
How ...
Bernard of Clairvaux
Eleventh century A.D.O sacred Head, now wounded, with grief and shame weighed down,
Now scornfully surrounded with thorns, Thine only crown;
How pale Thou art with anguish, with sore abuse and scorn!
How does that visage languish, which once was bright as morn!
What Thou, my Lord, hast suffered, was all for sinners’ gain;
Mine, mine was the transgression, but Thine the deadly ...
Mark 4:21-23 (ESV)
21 And he said to them, "Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand? 22 For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret except to come to light. 23 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
For many centuries in ...
