How the Church Lost Its Soundscape
Monday, November 18, 2019 at 03:24PM
Embryo Parson in "Three Streams" Anglicanism, Anglican Chants and Hymnody, Anglican Spiritual Life, Chants and Hymnody, Charismata, Contemporary Christian Worship

"Musically, all evangelicals are charismatics now."

"The church created the soundscape for Western Christendom because she cultivated her own musical life in the liturgy that united human voices with the angelic choirs of heaven. I can hardly imagine a more worrisome sign of worldliness, or clearer evidence of the church’s identity crisis, than our eager renunciation of our own soundscape and our determination instead to reproduce the world’s."

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