ANGLICAN 1000: David Taylor: The Formative Power of Artful Worship
ANGLICAN 1000: David Taylor: The Formative Power of Artful Worship
March 10, 2012
I am not a church planter. I don't feel called to it but you have my prayers and respect. I hope what I share will be helpful to the work you do.
[Starts with a quote from Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics. I could not type fast enough get all of it, but here is the gist]
"In the death of Christ, God the Creator and Lord of life takes the lost cause of man out of his hand, makes it his own and intervenes majestically and wisely. What arises is not random joy but qualified joy. Joy has been destroyed on the one hand and reconstituted on the other but then raised to the level of a command. Joy is now before the Lord and in him but it is a genuine earthly and human joy-wedding, harvest, victory, wine-drinking, eating bread, play, speak and dance, as well as pray. We must remember that the man who hears and takes to heart the biblical message is forbidden to be anything but merry and cheerful."
Such a beautiful statement. What if we took Barth's ideas about joy and used them with a different linguistic key? What would it sound like as poetry? What would it sound like?
[four stanzas of "Ode to Joy" are projected onto the screen]
These four lines of poetry say almost as much as Barth's surging swelling Germanic text. The metaphoric language captures our experience of joy not against Barth but with him. What if we not only read it but also sing it? Let's sing the verses together.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
March 10, 2012
I am not a church planter. I don't feel called to it but you have my prayers and respect. I hope what I share will be helpful to the work you do.[Starts with a quote from Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics. I could not type fast enough get all of it, but here is the gist]
"In the death of Christ, God the Creator and Lord of life takes the lost cause of man out of his hand, makes it his own and intervenes majestically and wisely. What arises is not random joy but qualified joy. Joy has been destroyed on the one hand and reconstituted on the other but then raised to the level of a command. Joy is now before the Lord and in him but it is a genuine earthly and human joy-wedding, harvest, victory, wine-drinking, eating bread, play, speak and dance, as well as pray. We must remember that the man who hears and takes to heart the biblical message is forbidden to be anything but merry and cheerful."
Such a beautiful statement. What if we took Barth's ideas about joy and used them with a different linguistic key? What would it sound like as poetry? What would it sound like?
[four stanzas of "Ode to Joy" are projected onto the screen]
These four lines of poetry say almost as much as Barth's surging swelling Germanic text. The metaphoric language captures our experience of joy not against Barth but with him. What if we not only read it but also sing it? Let's sing the verses together.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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