well the kerygmatic dimension of worship. Just as many of the ancient psalms were kerygmatic, so many Christian hymns are kerygmatic. One thinks of Isaac Watts’s paraphrase of Psalm 72: “Jesus Shall Reign Where’er the Sun,” or of Joachim Neander’s “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation.” Much church music is kerygmatic. Organ preludes and postludes emphasize the kerygmatic dimension of Christian worship just as the sounding of the shofar and the blowing of trumpets announced the
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