I heard Lucy Winkett at Greenbelt earlier in the year giving a talk based on this book and the it was good to follow that up by reading the book and allowing some of the ideas to be explained in greater depth and to have the time to reflect on them more fully.
The major insight of the book is that we live in a noisy world and that sound is never neutral - there is always a meaning being imparted along with it. Given that the sounds of our contemporary world are mostly encountered involuntarily it is of even greater importance for us to be attentive to the meaning that are being forced upon us.
Within this umbrella of an idea the book is wide ranging and eclectic and is best understood as a series loosely related essays rather than a single developed thesis, but that is no bad thing. The book is littered with powerful illustrative examples and the force of the argument that Lucy is putting forward is really driven by these examples - its truthfulness is encountered by having life those experiences yourself.
The chapter on the Sound of the Angels was for me the most interesting - and the idea that it is more important to love Angels than to believe in them seem to be a profoundly important message to our Post-Modern world - and one that it equally applicable to God as to Angels.
I would definitely recommend this book as it is highly readable and yet still manages to prompt lots of 'big' questions.
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