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Adapatation Of The Religious Dance And Similar Physical Movements In The Indigenous Church, Manfred Berndt
Adapatation Of The Religious Dance And Similar Physical Movements In The Indigenous Church, Manfred Berndt
Master of Sacred Theology Thesis
This is just one example of a cultural problem that raises a painful question for the Western Christian: “Why is it that, while the Church, particularly in her worship, has done so much to use God's gifts of music, art, and. drama, it has almost completely ignored or condemned the one art that combines these three--the dance?" Can the dance be a vehicle to glorify God, not merely in recreation, but also in worship? It is to this problem that this study addresses itself. It intends to examine the reverent and irreverent use of the dance in the history of …
The Musical Rendition Of The Psalms In The First Temple, Lawson Fackler Knight
The Musical Rendition Of The Psalms In The First Temple, Lawson Fackler Knight
Bachelor of Divinity
The song of the congregation is a devotional form of musical art. The singing, to be sure, is not that of mechanical perfection; there is not to be found the delicate nuances of the artist; but when the entire congregation lifts its heart and voice in the praise and adoration of almighty God, the loving Father, there is a spiritual quality in the music that makes the hymns a magnificent setting for the preaching of God's word. The hymns build up to the climax of the sermon; they frame the sermon in beauty. The singing of hymns is an important …