Don’s comment today inspired me to re-post my version of his favourite hymn.
#357 My Hope is Built on Nothing Less (Pomo version 2.4.6)
From the Skinny Postmodern Hymnbook ,based on post in 2001
“My hope [acknowledging mystery/rejecting secular rationalism]
is built on nothing less
than Jesus’ blood and righteousness. . .[historically narrational over propositional]
I dare not trust the sweetest frame [suspicion of construct/text/logic systems]
but wholly [holistically interconnected, rejection of gnostic dualism, systemic thinking] lean [experientially] on Jesus name. [authority source transcending visible human institutions]
On Christ the solid rock I stand [post-foundationalist]
All other ground is sinking sand [deconstructionalist]
All other ground is sinking sand.” [value judgment based on communal experience of screwing up our lives when we place our trust in secondary sources and not primary]
very nice. do we sing the bits in brackets? 😉
Multi-taskers might do it, but it might be easier to let the choir sing the background.
What would you do with “here I raise my Ebenezer?”
That wouldn’t be too crass, I mean…
About “My Hope Is Built”… Could you work in something about binary oppositions?
🙂
That’s fun to think about some hymns in such a manner.
Thanks.
And don’t forget “support me in the whelming flood” [primordial symbol of chaos and evil, as well as a pomo metaphor for reality].
“When all around my soul gives way, he then is all my hope and stay” [centered-set theology]
Awesome work. Thank you.