Studying Gregorian chant presents many problems to the researcher because its most important stages of development were not recorded in writing. From the sixth to the tenth century, this form of music existed only in song as medieval musicians relied on their memories and voices to pass each verse from one generation to the next. Peter Jeffery offers an innovative new approach for understanding how these melodies were created, memorized, performed, and modified. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, including anthropology and ethnomusicology, he identifies characteristics of Gregorian chant that closely resemble other oral traditions in non-Western cultures and demonstrates ways music historians can take into account the social, cultural, and anthropological contexts of chant's development.

Re-Envisioning Past Musical Cultures: Ethnomusicology in the Study of Gregorian Chant (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)

Arts & Photography

Jeffery, Peter

Music

University of Chicago Press

In 1958, Bible scholar Morton Smith announced the discovery of a sensational manuscript–a second-century letter written by St. Clement of Alexandria, who quotes an unknown, longer version of the Gospel of Mark. When Smith published the letter in 1973, he set off a firestorm of controversy that has raged ever since. Is the text authentic, or a hoax? Is Smith’s interpretation correct? Did Jesus really practice magic, or homosexuality? And if the letter is a forgery . . . why? Through close examination of the “discovered” manuscript’s text, Peter Jeffery unravels the answers to the mystery and tells the tragic tale of an estranged Episcopalian priest who forged an ancient gospel and fooled many of the best biblical scholars of his time. Jeffery shows convincingly that Smith’s Secret Gospel is steeped in anachronisms and that its construction was influenced by Oscar Wilde’s Salomé, twentieth-century misunderstandings of early Christian liturgy, and Smith’s personal struggles with Christian sexual morality.

The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled: Imagined Rituals of Sex, Death, and Madness in a Biblical Forgery

Religion & Spirituality

Yale University Press

The Mystery of Christian Marriage

Paulist Pr

The recent controversy over the inclusion of women in the mandatum - the footwashing service on Holy Thursday - calls for a new look at the history and purpose of this ceremony. Jesus' own washing of his disciples' feet had a twofold meaning: as a participation in his death and eternal life, and as an example of humility to be imitated. Neither meaning justifies excluding women, and in any case women have participated in footwashing ceremonies for much of Christian history. The modern rubric restricting the ceremony to males dates only from 1956 and results from an unwise attempt to alter the ceremony into a kind of liturgical drama. Thus the present flawed rite needs to be replaced with one that is more traditional and inclusive; a suggested alternative mandatum ceremony is proposed to show how this could be done.

A New Commandment: Toward a Renewed Rite for the Washing of Feet

Liturgical Pr

Western civilization has produced a culture that cares little or nothing for God. for many people today biblical Christianity is a joke, as outdated theory that is no longer relevant, and being born again has become a term of disdain. Only one thing is going to change all this, and that is for men and women to be truly saved and made new in Christ. It is no use mourning over the way the world thinks of God if we do nothing to make him real to men and women who are dead in their sin. The purpose of this book is to help believers see their God-given responsibility to evangelize a lost world and at the same time to see evangelism as both a privilege and a joy.

How shall they hear?

Evangelical Pr

Many systems of religion and lifestyle claim to bring a person to God, but they say conflicting things and they point in different directions.Is there really a way which leads absolutely and certainly to God? Yes, there is, and this booklet shows you how to be sure you are on the right way.

Which Way to God-(10 Pack)

One of the most terrible effects of sin in the human heart and mind is that it deludes us in just about every aspect of our understanding about God. In this book we look at some biblical characters whose delusions ought to serve as a lesson to us all. Some were believers, others were not, but all had to face the consequence of their actions, either in this world or the next. Everyone who has some awareness of God, whether a keen believer or merely a nominal Christian, is capable of trying to fool him at sometime or other and this book is written to remind us that this is an activity with no prospects of success. Peter Jeffery is now retired, but continues to be in demand as a gospel preacher on both sides of the Atlantic.

You Can't Fool God

The Cross: The Reality of the Cross for Today

History

EP BOOKS

Gracewing

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Re-Envisioning Past Musical Cultures: Ethnomusicology in the Study of Gregorian Chant (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)

Re-Envisioning Past Musical Cultures: Ethnomusicology in the Study of Gregorian Chant (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)

The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled: Imagined Rituals of Sex, Death, and Madness in a Biblical Forgery

The Mystery of Christian Marriage

A New Commandment: Toward a Renewed Rite for the Washing of Feet

How shall they hear?

Which Way to God-(10 Pack)

You Can't Fool God

The Cross: The Reality of the Cross for Today

The Mystery of Christian Marriage