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A Little-Known Double-Choir Hymn Cycle from c. 1600

De Musica Disserenda, 2018
An early-seventeenth-century choirbook originating from Graz surviving in Ljubljana (SI-Lnr, MS 343) contains alongside other compositions thirty-one hymns by Francesco Stivori uniquely known from this source.
Klemen Grabnar
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The Diremption of Meaning

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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FUNERAL SONGS

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Musica, 2008
The traditional reformed community has many customs related to the three-day mourning of the dead, the period between the time of death and the time of burial. Musical performances are a crucial part of this mourning period.
Éva PÉTER
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“Decide This Doubt for Me”: William Cowper’s Olney Hymns (1779)

Religions
This paper proposes that William Cowper’s Olney Hymns (1779) instantiate a curious form of modern belief. Cowper’s hymns are riddled with personal confessions of doubt, unbelief, and a sense of exile from the broader Christian church.
James Bryant Reeves
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Aesthetic Code of the Church Hymns (Cithara Sanctorum, 1636 by Tranovský) II. [PDF]

Slovenska Literatura, 2003
Aesthetic code of the church hymns is specific. One of the Slovak poets and literary scholars Tichomír Milkin wrote in his study O cirkevnom básnictve (About the Church poetry) that supernatural character of Christian art is its typical feature.
Timotea Vráblová
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Garo Hymns

, 1947
Book of 112 hymns including an ...

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The Reverb of Divine Revelation: Theological Poetics in John of the Cross

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the theological poetics of John of the Cross, investigating both the conditions under which contemplative experience gives rise to speech and the theological status of that speech within John's account of divine revelation.
Michael C. Costas
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Lost in Communication? Beyond the Aporia of Kenosis

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Contemporary kenoticist Christologies reach an impasse when they conflate metaphorical and analogical predication. Interpreting divine “self‐emptying” in analogical terms—as divine self‐divestment—generates ethical concerns as well as philosophical, exegetical, and doctrinal difficulties.
Ligita Ryliškytė SJE
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De vuelta a la ‘biblioteca’ del mago: versos y magia

Aitia
Remarks on some features of the versified texts (known as “magical hymns”) appearing in documents of magic belonging to the Hellenistic-roman period. The parts of this analysis are: 1. Greek versified texts in the library of the magician. 2. The “magical”
Emilio Suárez de la Torre
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