A new song for an old world : musical thought in the early church /
Stapert, Calvin, 1942-
A new song for an old world : musical thought in the early church / Calvin R. Stapert. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2007. - xiv, 232 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. - The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship liturgical studies series . - The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship liturgical studies series. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and index.
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.
0802832199 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780802832191 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006028677
Bible.--Psalms--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Music--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Church music.
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
Public worship.
BV 290 / .S82 2007
A new song for an old world : musical thought in the early church / Calvin R. Stapert. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2007. - xiv, 232 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. - The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship liturgical studies series . - The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship liturgical studies series. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and index.
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.
0802832199 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780802832191 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006028677
Bible.--Psalms--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Music--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Church music.
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
Public worship.
BV 290 / .S82 2007