A new song for an old world : musical thought in the early church / Calvin R. Stapert.
Series: The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship liturgical studies seriesPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2007.Description: xiv, 232 p. : ill., map ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0802832199 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780802832191 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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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.
