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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John D Witvliet |
| ISBN: | 9780802807670 0802807674 |
| OCLC Number: | 76828849 |
| Description: | xix, 169 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The Psalms and the basic grammar of Christian worship -- Personal address and dialogic structure -- Identifying God's character through metaphor and historical recitation -- The ebb, flow, and fittingness of praise and petition, gratitude and lament -- Individual and communal speech -- Specificity and generality in prayer -- Emotional engagement and range -- Image and poetry in Christian speech -- Interlude: reformation-era testimonies from Luther and Calvin -- Praying the Psalms in Christian worship -- Choosing a Psalm -- Liturgical criteria -- Homiletical criteria -- Pastoral criteria -- Choosing a translation -- Translations and paraphrases of the Psalms -- The liturgical placement of a Psalm -- Framing the congregation's mode of engagement -- Psalm types -- Contemplation or prayer -- Christological framings of Psalm texts -- The Psalms in New Testament context -- Studying the Psalm -- Pace -- Structure -- Script -- Poetic Lines -- Parallelism -- Realizing the Psalms : options for singing or speaking -- Solo reading -- Choral reading -- Responsive or antiphonal readings -- Chant -- Psalm tones and pointed text -- Anglican chant -- Gelineau psalmody -- Plainchant -- Responsorial psalmody (or psalmody with congregational refrains or antiphons) -- Metrical psalmody -- Psalm-based solo and choral anthems, organ and instrumental music -- The Psalms in contemporary and emerging worship, Psalm-based scripture songs, and the Psalms in popular music idioms -- Basis for improvised prayer -- Visual imagery, children's books, calligraphy -- Composite collections of Psalmody -- Children and youth in intergenerational worship -- Selecting from among this methods -- Finding sources -- Pastoral postscript -- Modern testamonies. |
| Series Title: | Calvin Institute of Christian Worship liturgical studies series |
| Responsibility: | John D. Witvliet. |
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