Search - Michael Card :: Final Word

Wonderful, meditative album.

Darrel Drumm | Bunch, OK United States | 11/30/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I bought this album (yes, the vinyl) for magnificent "Joseph's Song." So many songs are written about Mary and her viewpoint, but this song is about Joseph's viewpoint, not when he was in a quandary about his bride's pregnancy, but at the point of becoming a new father. The other songs are excellent too without one undeserving track. The lyrics are, without question, some of the most intelligent lyrics I've heard in any form of music. The only "political" song on here is called "Spirit of the Age," using Herod's massacre of the youth of Bethlehem as a comparison to abortion of today. The rest of the songs are purely spiritual. I find it interesting that in the credits he thanks Garrison Keillor for "providing a most wonderful place to escape the pressures of daily writing and recording." Card's masterpiece is a unconventional sacred Christmas album that is worth the trouble of buying.



This CD is the first part of a trilogy on the life of Christ. The CD's in the trilogy are The Final Word, Scandalon and Known by the Scars."

1987 release focused on the Incarnation

JC | MD USA | 11/22/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Thoughtful and contemplative without being overwrought.



Tracks:

To the Mystery

The Final Word

Spirit of the Age

Celebrate the Child

Joseph's Song

Overture to the Trilogy

The Promise

Immanuel

Carmen Christi

Joy in the Journey"