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Verkondiging deur musiek: 'n Aspek van kreatiewe geloofskommunikasie

Elsabé Kloppers
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies | Vol 59, No 1 | a648 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v59i1.648 | © 2003 Elsabé Kloppers | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 27 October 2003 | Published: 27 October 2003

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Elsabé Kloppers, Universiteit van Pretoria, South Africa

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Communicating faith creatively through music

The question of music ministry has become a focal point in the Dutch Reformed Church. The debate arises primarily from discontent about rigid and uninspired musical practices in the church. These practices are promoted and affirmed by one-sided theological views, according to which the spoken word as God's Word, is over-emphasized, and proclamation through music and other means is denied. In some Reformed churches this one-sidedness led to responses in the form of a music ministry with new one-sided approaches. In this article it is argued that music, singing and other forms of art need to be recognized and promoted as ways of communicating the Gospel on various levels. An encompassing strategy for creative communication of the faith within a more active liturgy needs to be developed. Liturgists need to be well-trained for such an encompassing task.


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