Ruth Smith
speaker
216 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 May
Ruth Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, Jennings specifically said this was for Handel to perform in Passion Tide, and he always did.
This is such a generous work and it doesn't exclude people by being very focused on doctrine.
You know, the difficult issue of the Trinity isn't there.
Hell isn't there.
The threatening parts of Christianity aren't there.
There's no villain.
There's no Satan by comparison.
No, he popped up in Handel's first oratorio about salvation by Christ, which was La Resurrezione in Italy.
And this is a point perhaps to mention that whereas most people would have found Messiah unique and unprecedented, it wouldn't have been for Jennings because he knew that Handel had composed an oratorio about salvation through Christ himself.
for the Catholic community of Italy, that he had composed a passion oratorio for his own home Lutheran community in Germany.
And now Jennings would have thought, surely it's time that the greatest composer on earth composed an oratorio about salvation for us all, for the Anglican community of England.
I think if you're Christian, it's redemptive.
But it's interesting that people who aren't Christian find it uplifting, warming, encouraging, joyful.
Well, but why?
I mean, the interesting part of that question.
Yes, I mean, it continues to be welcomed by people all over the world, people in countries which are not Christian at all, far flung.
Jennings would be so pleased that their word has gone forth unto the ends of the world and that the propagation of the gospel is one of the
quote, evidences of Christianity, which Jennings is careful to include.
And look, it's happened with Messiah.
It all fits so neatly.
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