Listening in

By Stephen Breck Reid

Book Overview

Stephen Breck Reid maintains that every reader of the biblical text views it through the lens of other contexts. That is to say, communal narratives, cultural myths and stories, and the reader's own... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0687011949
• ISBN13: 9780687011940
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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WORSHIP CONTEXT

iT IS NOT BY ACCIDENT THAT THE MASS ALWAYS INCLUDES A RESPONSORIAL PSALM. OF ALL THE TYPES OF BIBLICAL TEXT, THE PSALMS MOST CLOSELY CONNECT WITH OUR WEEKLY WORSHIP LIVES. BY BEING ACTIVE IN UNDERSTANDING THE VARIETY OF POSSIBLE CONTEXTS OF THE PSALM, WE CAN OPEN OURSELVES TO A FULLER WORSHIP EXPERIENCE, REID's TEXT TEACHES ABOUT PREACHING AND LISTENING IN A WAY THAT A STANDARD PREACHING TEXT COULD NEVER DO. tHIS BOOK IS A USEFUL ADDITION TO THOSE OF US WHO ATTEND TO WORSHIP ON A REGULAR BASIS