Posted on 08/29/2006 1:08:37 PM PDT by NYer
On the money, Charles! The wife and I seldom attend our contemporary service. It's just not an enjoyable experience for this 'old fogy'. The more traditional, the better. Jimbo
Good article.
One of the reasons that "Amazing Grace" will not be sung at anything Catholic that I have anything to do with.
Read the words -- they support that we are saved by grace ALONE. Not ture with Catholic teaching.
Care to weigh in?
Possibly the subject for another thread: angels. As bad doctrinally as many religious songs are, so are the typical representation of angels. For example, if this angel is Gabriel, then why does he appear so effeminate? Nowhere in Scripture are angels depicted as having wings and nowhere are angels described as other than having the appearance of a man. Something to chew on.
Good article.
I kind of agree with you. I don't like a lot of songs from that genre, but I do like "I Am the Bread of Life." It is Jesus' Bread of Life discourse (John 6) in hymnic form. It proclaims the promise of the resurrection, in the words of Christ. And the music fits the text, in my opinion.
The "problem," of course, is that it's all in the first person. This is a device which should be used sparingly, and with understanding. There are some good traditional hymns that use the first-person device, but I'm not sure that they do it for the whole hymn, all stanzas.
One confusion possible with "I Am the Bread of Life" is on the refrain, "And I will raise him up. . . ." In John 6 it is Christ's promise to raise the believer on the last day. However, I'm not sure if some people singing the hymn mistakenly think it means that WE are "raising up" CHRIST with our praises.
It's your loss.
Have you got one for "Sun, Moon and All Stars" or whatever that really anthrocentric LW hymn is?
I like it too.
I actually like that hymn!
**Not ture with Catholic teaching.**
Oops -- Not true with Catholic teaching.
I am Protestant and even I can't stand "Amazing Grace". Overdone, difficult for congregations to sing, and it drones on and on.
Nevertheless, I have my flame-retardant suit on. LOL! Already got flamed once.
A bit off topic, but the piscopo church I ran away from just sent out a message that they're "reevaluating" their "contemporary" service due to lack of attendance.
Doesn't matter to me any more, I'm Catholic. It's TOO LATE!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Have you looked at it Christologically?
It's also not correct Catholic theology. There's nothing wrong with being saved by grace alone; it's the only way anyone is saved.
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It does go on and on and on and on, doesn't it. Seems like it never ends. And I am sitting there as though I am deaf. Not singing at all.
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