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Cox, R David; McLaughlin, Michael P

 
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Sinopsis

Jesus asked the disciples, "Who do people say that I am?" His followers have been pondering his identity ever since. One answer came in the form of the Nicene Creed. The "Great O Antiphons" provide another. These liturgical texts, dating from the same era as the creeds, apply a variety of images from Jewish tradition to the Christ. Unlike the creeds, though, they concern what (from a sixth-century viewpoint) the Christ was doing from creation to his incarnation. Most familiar through the carol "O Come, O Come Emmanuel," these antiphons are increasingly being used in creative ways for worship and meditation, and not only in Advent. Astonishingly, however, in their fifteen-hundred-year history, they apparently have never been studied for their christological significance: What do they say about the person of Christ? That is what The Coming Emmanuel strives to address, responding to a question that is as old as Christianity and as recent as today.

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R. David Cox is an Episcopal priest who has served congregations in Connecticut and Virginia. He is now Professor of History at Southern Virginia University teaching religious and American history. Michael P. McLaughlin is Director of Music at St. Brigid's Catholic Church, Amherst, Massachusetts, and the Newman Catholic Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he is a graduate student of choral conducting.

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