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Title: Hymns to Christ and a Concert of Miniatures by Ignatius Press, Costante Berselli ISBN: 0-85439-210-6 Publisher: Morehouse Group Pub. Date: 01 December, 1982 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: a truly Universal Church work
Comment: Hymns to Christ, I suspect, was conceived out of the art, the texts being secondary. The minatures selected to accompany the hymns come from 4 codices of the 13th and 14th centuries. They are well selected gems.

Accompaning the minatures are "hymns" to Christ from the first millennium. I put "hymn" in quotes as there are a number of prayers, including liturgical prayers, and scriptural selections as well. But what a delightful diverse collection: Church Fathers such as Polycarp, Origen, Ephrem Syrus, Prudentius ; apocrypha such as Acts of Peter; a variety of Liturgies such as Chaldean, Syriac, Coptic, Armenian.

The strength of the text is its diversity - the reminder to the Western Church of the influence and strengths of the Eastern Church. Similarly, the diversity reminds us of the different emphasises required for different people, for different times, and in different places.