Modern biblical scholarship has deconstructed the text of the bible to the point where faith can seem lost. One reaction to this is to insist on the literal truth and accuracy of the bible. Karen Armstrong proposes another: to understand the religious ways in which the bible has been understood across the ages as a living document that speaks to people in the spiritual crises of their day and time.
Karen Armstrong, “The Bible: The Biography”
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Anglican choral music barely existed outside the high church cathedrals from the height of the reformation to the Oxford Movement's embrace of hymns ancient and modern. Sumptuous reproductions of the pivotal music highlight the influences of the sacred and profane, continental and insular trends, and political pressure on the development of the Anglican choral tradition.
"How did modern evangelicalism lose its balance? How did some behaviour fall into an accountability category while other distractions remained unaddressed and therefore socially and religiously acceptable?"
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