A Moving Word: Media Art in WorshipCrowly examines how media arts in worship can support the gospel, preaching, music, and all components of the service to enhance the whole experience of worship. Each chapter includes discussion questions that can be used with small groups. |
Contents
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Let There Be Light | 19 |
Return to the Lord | 29 |
This Is the Night | 43 |
How Long O God? | 55 |
Teach Us to Use Your Gifts Carefullyand Innovatively | 67 |
For All the Saints | 79 |
Related Resources | 89 |
Common terms and phrases
Advent aesthetic alternative worship appropriate art for worship art in worship Ash Wednesday assembly baptism baptized Bill Viola candles celebrate chant Christian Communal Co-creation communion congregation COTA creating media culture Easter Vigil Emerging Church encounter environmental art Epiphany eucharist experience font gathered gifts God's graphic Holy hymn image magnification imaginations installation art integration of media invite Jesus kind lectionary light liturgical art liturgical media art liturgies of lament liturgy of healing lives Lord Lutheran Church media artists media in worship media meditation media ministry media producer media screens media technology metaphors moving word multimedia museums night offer parish parishioners participants paschal candle pastor photographs prayer Principles for Worship produce media art projected reading Renewing Worship ritual saints serve liturgy shofar singing song sounds spiritual Sunday Taizé Taizé Community technology and media theology tion Tony Oursler video monitor visual worship space worship team
Popular passages
Page 86 - ... propose the thesis that theology cannot be complete until it appropriates these arts as an integral moment of itself and its own life, until the arts become an intrinsic moment of theology itself. One could take the position that what comes to expression in a Rembrandt painting or a Bruckner symphony is so inspired and borne by divine revelation, by grace and by God's self-communication, that they communicate something about what the human really is in the eyes of God which cannot be completely...
Page 29 - Lord is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter, the mighty man cries aloud there. A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements.
Page 19 - And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him. And a voice came from heaven, "You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.
Page 19 - In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.
Page 30 - Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning." So rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm.
Page 88 - Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
Page 19 - When they had heard the king, they set out; and there, ahead of them, went the star that they had seen at its rising, until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw that the star had stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy.
Page 11 - By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. I say to God, my rock, »Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mournfully because the enemy oppresses me?
Page 19 - Arise. shine; for your light has come. and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. For darkness shall cover the earth. And thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise upon you. and his glory will appear over you.
Page 69 - Answer me when I call, O God, defender of my cause; * you set me free when I am hard-pressed; have mercy on me and hear my prayer. "You mortals, how long will you dishonor my glory; * how long will you worship dumb idols and run after false gods?