New Song for an Old World Musical Thought in the Early Church

Name: New Song for an Old World Musical Thought in the Early Church
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ISBN: 9780802832191

ISBN-10: 0802832199

ISBN-13: 9780802832191

Edition: 2007

Authors: Calvin R. Stapert

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While the worship wars continue to rage in the church, many do not realize that conflict over music in congregations goes back to the earliest Christians. In "A New Song for and Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church" Calvin Stapert challenges Christians to depart from our obsession with the new and to take advice from earlier thought on music. He draws parallels between the pagan cultures of the second and third centuries and our own multicultural realities, enabling readers to comprehend the musical ideas of myriad early Christian thinkers, from Clement and Tertullian to John Chrysostom and Augustine. This able treatment of the attitudes of the early church towards Psalms, hymns…

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Publication date: 12/18/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English




Prelude : honor father and mother



The song of the church in the New Testament



The church in a pagan society



Clement of Alexandria : musical cosmology and composed manners



Tertullian : pagan spectacles and Christian households



Expansion and persecution, triumph and trouble



St. Ambrose : administrator and mystic



St. John Chrysostom : Christian households amid the Devil's garbage heap



Rejection : the music of a pagan world



Affirmation : psalms and hymns



St. Augustine : the problems of eloquence and inordinate love



Postlude : what can the early church teach us about music?



Early Christian hymns in devotional context



The world of early Christianity