A new song for an old world
A new song for an old world: musical thought in the early church Calvin R. Stapert,
Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2007.
ISBN: 0802832199
Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) 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.
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