Dear Friends:
Steiner Craw Chinese Lay Readers--NO!
Rudolf Steiner held that in the time between sleeping and full awakening one talked to the dead.I don't hold to necromancy, but I do often get inspiration at that time.
This inspiration is about lay readers of lectionary verses in church. NO!, I say. Here's why.
Garrett Craw mention that thousands of years from now, Mandarin may be the chief theological language. Whether ideographic or pin yin he didn't say.
BUT a key thing about Chinese, as I understand it, is pitch, tone, intonation when spoken.
This intonation as interpretation would be a key.
Remember that, as I recall, the Bible in Hebrew was written in all caps, without vowels, without spaces between words, without verses, chapters, etc.
Much depended on training.
So too intonation of written Scripture, when read, is important. A trained reader is valuable.
It's too valuable in worship, in the warship, for untrained voices. It'd be like Chinese without pitch, intonation, etc.
This is not to impugn 'every man (male and female) a priest, but training is important.
The Word of God is a sword, the pastor be be the first cut and the cutter.
Chuck Hartman
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