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Observations on the New Hymns Movement, part 3
This is part three of a series of posts looking at the resurgence of hymns in the past 10 years through the “re:tuned” movement that has coalesced around Indelible Grace, Red Mountain Music, BiFrost Music, Sojourn Music, and many more. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bifrost Arts, hymns, indelible grace, John Witvliet, Lester Ruth, Psalms, Psalms of Ascents, Red Mountain Music, Sojourn Music, zac hicks
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Songwriting and Theology – The Incarnation
Why is it that we love the songs of Christmas so much? No matter what your style of worship is I bet you’ll find yourself singing the choice Christmas carols like O Come, O Come Emmanuel and Come, Thou Long … Continue reading
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Tagged carols, Christmas, incarnation, Lester Ruth, Prudentius
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Songwriting and Theology – Cosmic Scope of Salvation
This week in Songwriting and Theology we are reading through a collection of texts (Orthodox Holy Week Text) taken again from the Orthodox church’s celebration of Holy Week. Specifically we are looking at texts for Holy Saturday. The day between … Continue reading
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Tagged Communion, Easter, harrowing, Holy Saturday, Lester Ruth, songwriting
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Songwriting and Theology – Romanos the Melodist
This week in Songwriting and Theology, a course I’m taking at Duke Divinity in Durham, NC we are studying the “kontakion’s” of Romanus the Melodist, a 6th century deacon and poet of the (eastern orthodox) church who served in both … Continue reading
Songwriting and Theology Ephrem 2
In this weeks assignment we continue to look at the hymns of St. Ephrem. Examining the hymnody of this early orthodox saint is helpful because the historical distance forces us to really read and reflect on his hymns with less … Continue reading
Songwriting and Theology – full song
Each week in our Songwriting and Theology course we look at a specific theme in the history of hymnody and attempt to write something ourselves that mimics this topic. Last week however we were asked to write a complete song … Continue reading
Songwriting and Theology Week 4 Trinity
In week four we examined the hymn texts of Charles Wesley and how he spoke of the Trinity. This topic is a particular passion of Dr. Ruth’s. Some years ago he published an article examining and lamenting the general absence of the … Continue reading
Songwriting and Theology Week 3
In week three we discussed hymn texts that place the writer or ‘us’ into the narrative. In class Dr. Ruth called these “Inside-Out” poems. If you have never taken the opportunity to approach a biblical text in this way then … Continue reading
Songwriting and Theology Week 2 Paradoxes
In week two we discussed how poetry has the ability to transcend the paradoxes of theology in a way that prose often fails too. ”Saying that someone, Jesus Christ, is both fully God and fully human, is something that rests uneasily … Continue reading
Songwriting and Theology
This is not a joke. I am actually taking a class at Duke this fall called “Songwriting and Theology.” Dr. Lester Ruth, a new professor to Duke, is teaching this course which he crafted while a professor at Asbury Seminary. … Continue reading
