The Sound of the Liturgy: How Words Work in Worship

Cally Hammond looks at how words function as carriers of semantic content (communicating facts and doctrines; telling stories; articulating emotions and spiritual perceptions) and then contrasts this with words as they function as physical entities striking the ear, so as to evoke emotions, memories and spiritual perceptions.

This basic antithesis between words as carriers of meaning and words as evokers of feeling, emotion, and memory leads to four chapters that explore in fascinating detail the four main aspects of liturgical speech: posture, repetition, rhythm and punctuation.

Author: Cally Hammond
Publisher: SPCK Publishing
Published: 01/15/2015
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780281069545

About the Author
Cally Hammond is the Dean of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She previously worked in rural parishes in the diocese of Ely, and is the author of Passionate Christianity (SPCK, 2007), Joyful Christianity (SPCK, 2009) and Glorious Christianity (SPCK, 2012).