But it did make me ponder: are we Christians making enough use of our own rituals that embody the redemptive narrative of the gospel? Let’s end the chapter with mention of a couple of our obvious Christian rituals: song and Eucharist. Let’s start with the Psalter. The psalms, of course, were originally poems set to music. The parallel rhythmic structure of Hebrew poetry, plus the enhancement of music, intensifies the affective power of the material. And much of the material of the Psalter is narrative. Many psalms are compressed autobiographical narratives, in which the psalmist struggles
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