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Glimpses of the New Creation: Worship and the Formative Power of the Arts is unavailable, but you can change that!

How do the arts in worship form individuals and communities? Every choice of art in worship opens up and closes down possibilities for the formation of our humanity. Every practice of music, every decision about language, every use of our bodies, every approach to visual media or church buildings forms our desires, shapes our imaginations, habituates our emotional instincts, and reconfigures our...

the stuff of heaven and earth to resound with the glory of God. Said otherwise, hue and texture, decibels and rhythm and metaphoric speech are already being loved, named, judged, redeemed, and rightly oriented by the Triune God before humans enter the scene. In concrete terms, while creation bears witness to God “in its own ways,” praising God by being fully itself, creation is also put to artistic and symbolic uses in a liturgical context. Wind, flesh, and stone praise God in their wind-y, flesh-y,
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