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Book Review: Divine Immutability: A Critical Reconsideration

TERRIEN APPROACHES the Magnificat as a superb example of Hebrew poetry, as a poem it "contracts the immensities," to use John Donne's phrase (p 76) As a song of the early church in Jerusalem, the poem "rehearses the history of our faith, from the gospel of the exodus to the gospel of Calvary" (p 41) As "a biblical theology in miniature the song brings together the esthetics of divine worship and the ethics of human service" (p xvn) For the past six centuries it has challenged the greatest composers of sacred music This book explores their interpretations of the four successive strophes of the poem It shows how their insights and sensibilities are often greater than those of biblical scholars (p 25) Terrien examines some fifteen choral and orchestral works