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Author Stapert, Calvin, 1942-

Title A new song for an old world : musical thought in the early church / Calvin R. Stapert.

Publication Info. Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2007.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  BV290 .S82 2007    Available  ---
 Talbott: Offsite Storage  BV290 .S82 2007 c.2  Available  ---
Description xiv, 232 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Series Calvin Institute of Christian Worship liturgical studies series
Calvin Institute of Christian Worship liturgical studies series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index.
Contents 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?
Subject Music -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Music -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Church music.
Church music.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Public worship.
Public worship.
Bible. Psalms -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. Psalms.
ISBN 0802832199 paperback alkaline paper
9780802832191 paperback alkaline paper
Standard No. 9780802832191