To Save Love for the World (Pt 2)

notes for a theology of sacred singing

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In a 2006 lecture to the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Rowan Williams argues that singing is in a very real sense “deeper” than speaking, not only historically but also spiritually and experientially, because it comes from the very inmost center of the heart:

I want to ask whether there has ever been a time in the history of the human…