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- Author: Jabez L Van Cleef
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2008
- Pages: 158
- ISBN-10: 1438226446
- ISBN-13: 9781438226446
- Format: 13.3 x 20.3 x 0.9 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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To promote singing, and a stronger sense of community, THE SONG OF LUKE retells the gospel story as a poem arranged in stanzas of four lines with lines of four beats, rhyming every other line, a ballad form called long meter. The poem retains the meaning of conventional versions of the story of Jesus, while offering suitable texts for musical settings of the entire gospel or any passage of particular interest. The text does not include any of the false and sinful condemnations of Jews which have historically contributed to the practice of eliminationist anti-semitism. The crucifixion of Jesus is shown as the assertion of Roman power, with the collusion of certain religious authorities, within the context of a cosmopolitan community. In all other respects it is a text for singing that is "congruent" with holy scripture, as advised in The Book of Common Prayer.
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- Author: Jabez L Van Cleef
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2008
- Pages: 158
- ISBN-10: 1438226446
- ISBN-13: 9781438226446
- Format: 13.3 x 20.3 x 0.9 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
To promote singing, and a stronger sense of community, THE SONG OF LUKE retells the gospel story as a poem arranged in stanzas of four lines with lines of four beats, rhyming every other line, a ballad form called long meter. The poem retains the meaning of conventional versions of the story of Jesus, while offering suitable texts for musical settings of the entire gospel or any passage of particular interest. The text does not include any of the false and sinful condemnations of Jews which have historically contributed to the practice of eliminationist anti-semitism. The crucifixion of Jesus is shown as the assertion of Roman power, with the collusion of certain religious authorities, within the context of a cosmopolitan community. In all other respects it is a text for singing that is "congruent" with holy scripture, as advised in The Book of Common Prayer.
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