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“This is an era in the life of both Church and society which values individual choice over corporate identities; and which is inclined to depreciate the value of symbolic actions in worship, in contrast with the transmission of semantic content – in other words, preferring factual or propositional information to value-added (or ‘encoded’) physical actions such as rituals or sacraments.”
― The Sound of the Liturgy: How Words Work In Worship
― The Sound of the Liturgy: How Words Work In Worship
“The power of the liturgy to ingrain in the worshipper the texts she or he hears week in week out is a crucial part of Christian formation;”
― The Sound of the Liturgy: How Words Work In Worship
― The Sound of the Liturgy: How Words Work In Worship
“Human beings learn how to ‘do’ prayer by watching, and then imitating, others. If the cycle of imitation is broken, if a generation of children grows up unable to say the Lord’s Prayer from memory, or to join in a hymn comfortably, or to feel safe and ‘at home’ in a church building when worship is going on, something crucial to Christianity’s very survival is in danger of being eroded.”
― The Sound of the Liturgy: How Words Work In Worship
― The Sound of the Liturgy: How Words Work In Worship
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