I read something in Frederica Mathewes-Green's book (At the Corner of East and Now: A Modern Life in Ancient Christian Orthodoxy) that I thought might interest you about the chanting:
We take turns reading the epistle each Sunday, with some variation in delivery; some merely read it and some chant. The liturgical preference is for chanting because, contrary to what you might expect, we believe it's better for the Bible to be read without expression. A talented reader's emphasis on one phrase or another would amount to a distracting personal interpretation. A clear chant lets the passage speak for itself. (p. 121)
Kind of cool, I think.
I like this book, but I was remembering something you said about how Lauren Winner wasn't a good enough writer to pull off the interplay of theology/autobiography or something like that, so I wonder if you'd feel similarly about this book -- though I do think Frederica's a much more skilled writer. It definitely isn't academic, but still very informative.
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Date: 2005-12-16 01:01 pm (UTC)Kind of cool, I think.
I like this book, but I was remembering something you said about how Lauren Winner wasn't a good enough writer to pull off the interplay of theology/autobiography or something like that, so I wonder if you'd feel similarly about this book -- though I do think Frederica's a much more skilled writer. It definitely isn't academic, but still very informative.