A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church

From: Pastoral Music | Date: August 1, 2007| Author: Hall, Jerome M | Copyright information

A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church Calvin R. Stapert. Eerdmans, 2006. ISBN 978-0802832191. 246 pages, paper-back. $18.00.

This wonderfully accessible book introduces readers to an early Christian world of song and prayer, notes some of the points of contact and friction between early Christian and pagan musical cultures, and invites Christians to a critically appreciative stance as they engage the cultures of their own time. Rich in quotations from early C...

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