In the gaze of God : aspects of the spiritual significance of Rublev's holy trinity
- Authors: Snyman, Desiree
- Date: 2001
- Subjects: Prayer , Spirituality
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Bachelor , BDiv
- Identifier: vital:1302 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016261
- Description: An icon is more than an image. It is a "sacramental form of presence" that makes present that which it signifies (Evdokimov 1976: 167). To come before an icon is to come before the presence of God. To gaze at an icon is to pray. Rublev's Holy Trinity icon (see frontispiece) is a theology in colour. Inspired by the story in Genesis 18, the icon depicts the three hypostases of the Trinity sitting around an altar with a chalice placed on top. The Biblical story is an account of the genuine hospitality that Abraham and Sarah shared with three pilgrims. This theme of hospitality is expressed by the three hypostases in the icon who invite the cosmos to share in their love-life. This research project investigates aspects of the spiritual significance that Rublev's icon has on our Christian living. To this end, an interpretation of the icon is offered in chapter two. Chapter three focuses on the relationship among the three hypostases in the icon. This chapter reflects on the meaning that trinitarian pericheresis could have on our spiritual living in the way we develop our relationships and the type of church and socio-political structures we adopt and support. The research project also explores the meaning that Rublev's icon could have for Methodists. The resource that Wesleyan spirituality offers to those who seek a deepened spirituality is the doctrine of Christian perfection. Perfection, in the Wesleyan model, is sought through the means of grace, nurtured through Christian koinonia and evidenced in social transformation. Christian perfection is discussed with reference to Rublev's icon in chapter four. Chapter five summarises aspects of the spirituality of the icon, postulates some implications that the icon has and unravels key issues arising out of this study.
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- Date Issued: 2001
Hugh Tracey memorial service
- Authors: Stanley Grassow (Speaker) , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1977
- Subjects: Tracey, Hugh , Memorial service , Prayer , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Saronde Farm f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113236 , vital:33733 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC131b-01
- Description: Stanley Grassow giving a tale of how he met Hugh Tracey, next talking about Hugh Tracey's background of his cresendo music followed by an opening prayer
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- Date Issued: 1977
Prayer in the Old Testament
- Authors: Russell, Douglas Godfrey
- Date: 1972
- Subjects: Bible -- Prayers , Worship in the Bible , Prayer
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Bachelor , BDiv
- Identifier: vital:1271 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013100
- Description: As "Prayer in the Old Testament" is a very wide subject, I have restricted myself to outlines on certain themes. In a sense the whole Bible can be described as "prayer" since it is a dialogue of man with God, and God with man. Obviously the word with which to attempt any definition of prayer is the Hithpa'el verb (?)and its noun (?). It describes speech with God. As the Hebrew poetic device of parallelism offers us synonyms to (?) we examine those words with much the same general definition. There are other words which the Hebrew concordance reveals as being translated as "prayer", or as describing prayer. Most of these words are the ordinary words for speech. The words for prayer, in general, describe speech before God. With this wide definition Chapter Two groups the various kinds of speech before God, and attempts to describe each. Prayer is seen as dialogue, as asking, and as praise and thanksgiving. Prayer, however, does not exist in a vacuum. It cannot be separated from the people who pray and the God who makes prayer possible. Personalities of prayer give prayer meaning, purpose and dynamic. Looking at their prayers in context enables us to grasp a little more fully the role of prayer in life itself. As God provides the framework of prayer we must also look at that framework. He determines what kind of prayers are acceptable. He gives direction and power to the words of prayer. Without God, prayer is either magic or meaningless words. In the final chapter I try to tie up some of the loose ends. Prayer is not just an isolated and individual thing it exists within the cult and the community. Certain disciplines accompany it.
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- Date Issued: 1972
The meaning and significance of intercessory prayer for the Christian
- Authors: Young, Ernlé W D
- Date: 1964
- Subjects: Prayer , Intercessory prayer , Intercessory prayer -- Christianity
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Bachelor , BDiv
- Identifier: vital:1279 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013439
- Description: [From Introduction] ‘It is a difficult and even formidable thing to write on prayer, and one fears to touch the Ark. Perhaps no one ought to undertake it unless he has spent more toil in the practice of prayer than on its principle. But perhaps also the effort to look into its principle may be graciously regarded by Him who ever liveth to make intercession as itself a prayer to know better how to pray'. So wrote P.T.Forsyth in the opening chapter of his work on prayer, 1, and at the outset of this study of the meaning and significance of Christian intercession one finds oneself echoing and endorsing his words. Intercession, of course, is only a single aspect of a far greater whole. The whole, to use Francis Thompson's phrase, is a 'many-splendoured thing'. No attempt to define and designate the limits of each of the elements which together make up prayer in its Christian fulness has ever been either entirely satisfactory or generally acceptable. But roughly speaking, there are seven colours on the palette of prayer or, to change the metaphor for one used by Leslie Weatherhead, 2, there are seven rooms in the house of prayer : Affirmation or Invocation of the Divine Presence; Adoration and Praise; Confession and the penitent seeking of Forgiveness, with the Positive Affirmation and Reception of that Forgiveness; Thanksgiving; Petition; Intercession; and Meditation. There are as well the more mystical forms of prayer admirably analysed and distinguished, for example, by Bede Frost.3. In practice, no element can be isolated or divorced from the other elements which with it make up the whole. Affirmation of God's presence issues quite naturally in adoration, which in turn leads spontaneously into confession, and so on. Each aspect of prayer acts and reacts on the others. To single out Intercession (and, insofar as it is related to it, Petition) and to write on it alone would therefore seem to require some explanation.
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- Date Issued: 1964
Chopi Xylophones and Shembe Original Music
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: Narration , Music , Chopi , Mozambique , Southern Africa , Xylophones , Making of xylophones , Musical instrument , Play , Trees , Greenwood tree , Mukusu tree , Sounding notes , Hard shelled fruits , Wild rubber , Resonator , Beeswax , Slow fire , Ngodo dance , Timbila , Antelope horn , Trumpets , Rattles , Whistling , Drums , Singing , African Christian community , Zulu Church of Shembe , Pilgrimage , Shembe , Nhlangakazi , Sacred places , Barefoot , Shembe, Amos , Shembe, Galilie , Zulu hymn , Church service , Solemn vow stones , Altar , Shrine flowers , Beads , Dancing kilt , Zulu feather head dress , Traditional costumes , Umbrellas , Decorative sticks , Reverend Ngoma, Fred , Prayer , Izibongo , Praises of God , Apron , Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy , Spring water , Kiln , Zulu summer
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15132 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012160 , Reel numbers: BC156, BC157
- Description: Broadcast entitled 'Chopi Xylophones and Shembe Original Music', for the television film programme broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
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Chopi Xylophones and Zulu Christian Dances
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: Narration , Music , Chopi , Mozambique , Southern Africa , Xylophones , Making of xylophones , Musical instrument , Play , Trees , Greenwood tree , Mukusu tree , Sounding notes , Hard shelled fruits , Wild rubber , Resonator , Beeswax , Slow fire , Ngodo dance , Timbila , Antelope horn , Trumpets , Rattles , Whistling , Drums , Singing , African Christian community , Zulu Church of Shembe , Pilgrimage , Shembe , Nhlangakazi , Religious dancing , Sacred places , Barefoot , Shembe, Amos , Shembe, Galilie , Zulu hymn , Church service , Solemn vow stones , Altar , Shrine flowers , Beads , Dancing kilt , Zulu feather head dress , Traditional costumes , Umbrellas , Decorative sticks , Reverend Ngoma, Fred , Prayer , Izibongo , Praises of God , Apron , Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy , Spring water , Kiln , Zulu summer
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15130 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012109 , Reel numbers: BC153, BC154
- Description: Broadcast copy of the original entitled 'Chopi Xylophones and Zulu Christian Dances', for the television film programme broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
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The Sound of Africa: The Union and Basutoland
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: Zulu herd boy‘s pipe , Ingekle , Gumboot dance , Township jive , Church of Shembe , Zulu Christian songs , Sotho church songs , Mbube , Zulu praise song , Prayer , Umakhweyana bow , Lesiba , Gora , Drums , Pennywhistle , Mission schools , Sotho country work song , Lalela Zulu , Nicetime , Seteng se liba , Midnight Party , Nicetime Baby , Wozani , Isithandwa sami , Kyrie eleison , Nong‘akobo , The Voice of the Lord , Wimoweh , South Africa , Basutoland , Lesotho , South African Broadcasting Corporation , The Lion , The Thorn in the Foot , Come Hither , Tsotsi patois , Dance Song Chief Ntshidi
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15057 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008485 , Reel numbers: BC001, BC002, BC003, BC004 , BC001
- Description: 2nd programme in ‘The Sound of Africa‘ Series A of illustrated talks by Hugh Tracey on his travels in search of African music, broadcast by the South African Broadcasting Corporation , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
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