Description
Our lives are lived against the backdrop of internal and external soundscapes. The sounds, noises and music with which we are surrounded in modern life have spiritual implications. There is also a soundtrack within us that plays constantly through memory, dreams, anxiety or thought.
What are these soundscapes, and how do we listen for the voice of God within them. How too do we find our own voice?
Table of Contents
Foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury
Introduction
Chapter One: The Sound of Scripture
Chapter Two: The Sound of Lament
Chapter Three: The Sound of Freedom
Chapter Four: The Sound of Resurrection
Chapter Five: The Sound of the Angels
Chapter Six: Our Sound is Our Wound
Acknowledgements
Author(s)
Lucy Winkett, Lucy Winkett is Canon Precentor of St Paul's Cathedral, with particular responsibility for music and liturgy. Before ordination, she trained as a soprano, and lived in a L'Arche community. She is a founding adviser for the public theology thinktank Theos and combines her cathedral ministry with chairing the governors of a new Church of England Academy in North London, leading retreats, and speaking and writing on culture, gender and religion. She is a contributor to BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day.
Reviews
"A persistent and perceptive commentary." The Catholic Herald, December 2009.
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"Winkett's theological reflections are complex and sophisticated...She is informative and wise...Each chapter bears a second and third read." The Sign, February 2010.
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"Our Sound is Our Wound is a remarkable book... so full of insights that it is almost overflowing with ideas." Church Times, January 2010.
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"The sounds of the modern city match, [Winkett] thinks, the dominant modern feeling of anxiety and fear- principally fear of death. In opposition, she presents the liberating forces of justice and beauty." Christopher Howse, The Daily Telegraph, February 2010.
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"Lively, stimulating and challenging" Jane Hedges, The Times, February 2010.
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"Lucy Winkett has an easy, anecdotal style which is both allusive and
informative, allowing the reader to set off on their own reflective
journeys." The Good Bookstall. Read the full review at http://www.thegoodbookstall.org.uk/review/9780826439215/lucy-winkett/our-sound-is-our-wound/
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