{"id":978,"date":"2020-06-14T17:24:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T17:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=978"},"modified":"2024-03-15T23:03:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T23:03:39","slug":"for-the-greater-glory-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/for-the-greater-glory-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"For The Greater Glory Of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very large percentage of the 3472 Sundays that I&#8217;ve been around for have been spent worshiping in some form or other at the Salvation Army. In that time, of course, the form of worship has changed quite a bit &#8211; but it is still very much of the same tradition.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->There are, however, many other forms of worship and praise and today&#8217;s music falls into one of those categories. The Te Deum (which begins : &#8220;We praise thee, O God : we acknowledge thee to be the Lord&#8221;) is part of the services in many Christian denominations and has been set to music by innumerable composers from Thomas Tallis to Arvo P\u00e4rt.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve said before that if I had to choose just one &#8220;favourite&#8221; composer it would be Bruckner and his setting of the Te Deum is today&#8217;s choice. Given that he was deeply religious it is no surprise that the dedication is &#8220;for the greater glory of God&#8221;<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hJqduVo2k9I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anton Bruckner : Te Deum<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hJqduVo2k9I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very large percentage of the 3472 Sundays that I&#8217;ve been around for have been spent worshiping in some form or other at the Salvation Army. In that time, of course, the form of worship has changed quite a bit &#8211; but it is still very much of the same tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[77,83,100,105,106],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-choral","tag-faith","tag-orchestral","tag-religious","tag-romantic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}