Stapert, Calvin,  1942- <br/><br/>
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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0802832199 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780802832191 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006028677 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible.--Psalms--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Music--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>Church music.<br/>Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.<br/>Public worship.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV 290  / .S82 2007