February 23, 2006

quotations for you

Only they who cry out for the Jews dare permit themselves to sing Gregorian. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The cantus firmus is the liturgy and the counterpoint is the sermon: the sermon can swing out in a wide arc, it can be venturesome. Then the service of worship is an integral indivisible whole. - Helmut Thielicke

Posted by tripp at February 23, 2006 10:44 AM
Comments

From where does the Bonhoeffer quotation come?

Posted by: David Sinden at February 23, 2006 09:59 PM

Thielicke quotes him in The Trouble With The Church. Thielicke is frustrated with the liturgists who are trying to reclaim the liturgical past without addressing the ethical present.

Posted by: Tripp at February 24, 2006 11:00 AM