Worshipping Christ eight days a week
How do our Advent hymns and the context in which we sing them both reflect and shape the character of the season? Musician Ian Coleman urges us to read the Book of Revelation through a liturgical lens to see in it a rich description of 'the great Cosmic liturgy' that we try to express through our Advent hymnody, a liturgy in which Christ is always and already present.
How are you with the End Times? What do you feel about the Rapture? The chances are that, if you understand what I am talking about, you will either have a keen interest in the book of Revelation as an actual book of prophecy, or be a decidedly sceptical bystander in the face of this concluding, divisive and puzzling section of the New Testament.
To continue reading Ian Coleman's reflection on Thinking Faith, go to: www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20111208_1.htm