Verzaubertes Hören: Das Zusammenwirken von Musik- und Wortsprache als Zeichen gottesdienstlicher Polyphonie

A church service is concerned with the renewal of life. Thus art, e.g. music, plays a central role: it gives scope to deal with different perspectives on life and reaches beyond every-day experience to transcendental experience. In its own way, music achieves the objective at which the gospel of the crucifixion and resurrection aims: the worshiping community is "enchanted" into becoming alive and human. The model of incantation demonstrates how music and words can combine in liturgy to achieve this goal.