The Liturgical Reception of Isaiah 6:3 in Nineteenth-Century Sweden

Abstract

L shapes the way we interact with the word. Like reading, liturgy organizes disparate elements and experiences into an interpretative frame with which we can return to our everyday life.1 The parallels that are possible to draw between liturgy and literature are of course many, but some of them are quite direct. Liturgy frequently makes use of biblical material – in worship, biblical texts find new context and expression. Sometimes, they are transformed in quite unexpected ways. And when returning to the Bible, one’s pre-understanding and one’s perspectives may be shaped by those experiences which one has experience in liturgy.