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Flourishing through Prayer by Singing in a Liturgical Choir

Religions
Prayer in human life enables directing attention to God and a transcendent goal beyond Earthly life. Singing has been present in the life of Israel since the oldest times, which is proved on the pages of the Holy Scriptures, in the Books of Exodus and ...
Agnieszka Marek, Tomasz Lisiecki
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Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
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The impact of the liturgical and charismatic movements on hymns and songs in contemporary worship, with special reference to the parish church of St Nicholas, Durham. [PDF]

, 2005
Music is a subject which has always been the cause of much debate within the church. The last century in particular has seen a considerable amount of change, in both the musical styles that have emerged and the place that congregational song has been ...
Williams, Rebecca Natalie Clare
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The Pan‐Orthodox Celebration of the 1600th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 1925

The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the attempts to organize a Pan‐Orthodox Council in the years following the First World War that could gather in 1925 on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea. While some of these efforts were remarkably ambitious, and although they were not always feasible or fully realized, they
Natallia Vasilevich
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Issues raised by contemporary theories of language for the language of worship: their impact on liturgy in the church of England 1955 - 1995 [PDF]

, 1995
This thesis examines the development of liturgy in the Church of England from the inception of its Liturgical Commission m 1955 until the present day.
Fletcher, Jeremy James
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Liturgical Power: Between Economic and Political Theology

, 2019
Review of the book Liturgical Power: Between Economic and Political Theology, by Nicholas Heron, New York, Fordham University Press, 2017, ISBN ...
Barbour, Charles (R14795)
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Vznik žánru české laické katolické liturgiky jako součást procesu katolické konfesionalizace [PDF]

Historie - Otázky - Problémy, 2022
This interdisciplinary paper discusses the situation in the Czech lands in the early modern period with regard to Catholic theology, liturgics and the development of these disciplines. Given the large number of religious texts that emerged in this period,
Michal Sklenář
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The Politics of Pointing: Lessing's Fingerzeig and the Limits of Figural Reading

The German Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Lessing's Fingerzeig—a “pointer” that guides without determining judgment—has often been treated as a stylistic habit rather than a hermeneutic principle. This essay reconstructs it as an ethics of interpretation, a gesture that orients without completing and leaves judgment to whoever follows.
Matthew Thomas Stoltz
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The liturgical development of the cathedrals of the church of Englad 1980 to present day [PDF]

, 2006
The contention of this thesis is that the development of liturgy in the Cathedrals of the Church of England over the last 25 years gives a unique insight and illustration of the way in which worship has developed within Anglicanism in this country.
Daffern, Adrian Mark
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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
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