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

Author:: Stapert, Calvin, 1942-
Published:: Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2007.
Physical Description:: xiv, 232 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

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Series:

The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship liturgical studies series

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.

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ISBN:

0802832199 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780802832191 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index.

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