A Brief History Of Jubilation
This section covers the phenomenon of jubilation, or wordless song and prayer. It was part of the worship practice of the ancient church, as attested in the writings of the church fathers. During the Middle Ages, it was a common popular expression of devotion to Jesus; and it formed an important component in the devotional expression of the great mystics of the Western church. Jubilation has many features in common with the "tongues" of the New Testament church, and its practice in Christian worship appears to have been a continuation of New Testament usage. The recovery of the tradition of jubilation could have significant impact upon the renewal of worship in the contemporary church.…
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The time from the conversion of Constantine until the dawning of the second millennium was the formative period of …
The medieval world at its high point was far from a time of dry metaphysics, religious rigidity and conformity, or …
Jubilation, the wordless prayer of ordinary worshipers in the "age of faith," occupied an even greater place in the…
Both the tongues or glossolalia of the New Testament and the jubilation of tradition were wordless sounds. Both wer…
An important aspect of contemporary worship renewal is the recovery of ancient church practice. The tradition of ju…