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Monday, September 19, 2005

WOWAW 14: Music, Worship, and Mystery

This week’s Words of Wisdom About Worship:

Because God, and therefore the worship of God, cannot be reduced to the rational, song has always been basic to the act of worship. Music is not added to the words to make them more pleasing; it is integral to the way the words are being used as openings to the transcendent, as windows to the mystery, as joining in the dance of the Trinity. 

-Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, pp.177; more

• Listen to a reading of this quote(mp3) by Howard Vanderwell

Earlier: WOWAW 13

Posted by Nathan Bierma on 09/19 at 09:29 AM
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