Music in Early Christian Literature
Author: James McKinnon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-09-07
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780521376242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of 400 passages on music from early Christian literature.
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A New Song for an Old World
Author: Calvin Stapert
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0802832199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven as worship wars in the church and music controversies in society at large continue to rage, many people do not realize that conflict over music goes back to the earliest Christians as they sought to live out the "new song" of their faith. In A New Song for an Old World Calvin Stapert challenges contemporary Christians to learn from the wisdom of the early church in the area of music. Stapert draws parallels between the pagan cultures of the early Christian era and our own multicultural realities, enabling readers to comprehend the musical ideas of early Christian thinkers, from Clement and Tertullian to John Chrysostom and Augustine. Stapert's expert treatment of the attitudes of the early church toward psalms and hymns on the one hand, and pagan music on the other, is ideal for scholars of early Christianity, church musicians, and all Christians seeking an ancient yet relevant perspective on music in their worship and lives today.
The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature
Author: Frances Young
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-04
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780521460835
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Books and Readers in the Early Church
Author: Harry Y. Gamble
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780300069181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating and lively book provides the first comprehensive discussion of the production, circulation, and use of books in early Christianity. It explores the extent of literacy in early Christian communities; the relation in the early church between oral tradition and written materials; the physical form of early Christian books; how books were produced, transcribed, published, duplicated, and disseminated; how Christian libraries were formed; who read the books, in what circumstances, and to what purposes. Harry Y. Gamble interweaves practical and technological dimensions of the production and use of early Christian books with the social and institutional history of the period. Drawing on evidence from papyrology, codicology, textual criticism, and early church history, as well as on knowledge about the bibliographical practices that characterized Jewish and Greco-Roman culture, he offers a new perspective on the role of books in the first five centuries of the early church.
Music & Worship in Pagan & Christian Antiquity
Author: Johannes Quasten
Publisher: Pastoral Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating re-creation, with impeccable scholarship, of the early attifudes towards music and singing in Christian worship, done in the context of the cultures in which the Church grew up.
A History of Early Christian Literature
Author: Justo L. González
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2019-08-27
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1611649544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical events have long been the standard lens through which scholars have sought to understand the theology of Christianity in late antiquity. The lives of significant theological figures, the rejection of individuals and movements as heretical, and the Trinitarian and christological controversiesthe defining theological events of the early churchhave long provided the framework with which to understand the development of early Christian belief. In this groundbreaking work, esteemed historian of Christianity Justo González chooses to focus on the literature of early Christianity. Beginning with the epistolary writings of the earliest Christian writers of the second century CE, he moves through apologies, martyrologies, antiheretical polemics, biblical commentaries, sermons, all the way up through Augustines invention of spiritual autobiography and beyond. Throughout he demonstrates how literary genre played a decisive role in the construction of theological meaning. Covering the earliest noncanonical Christian writings through the fifth century and later, this book will serve as an indispensable guide to students studying the theology of the early church.
Ancient Christian Worship
Author: Andrew B. McGowan
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2014-09-30
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1441246312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Important Study on the Worship of the Early Church This introduction to the origins of Christian worship illuminates the importance of ancient liturgical patterns for contemporary Christian practice. Andrew McGowan takes a fresh approach to understanding how Christians came to worship in the distinctive forms still familiar today. Deftly and expertly processing the bewildering complexity of the ancient sources into lucid, fluent exposition, he sets aside common misperceptions to explore the roots of Christian ritual practices--including the Eucharist, baptism, communal prayer, preaching, Scripture reading, and music--in their earliest recoverable settings. Now in paper.
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies
Author: Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks Online
Published: 2008-09-04
Total Pages: 1049
ISBN-13: 0199271569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100-600 AD) and examines the vast geographical area impacted by the early church, in Western and Eastern late antiquity. --from publisher description.
The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities
Author: Suzel Ana Reily
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 745
ISBN-13: 019985999X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates music's role in everyday practice and social history across the diversity of Christian religions and practices around the globe. The volume explores Christian communities in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia as sites of transmission, transformation, and creation of deeply diverse musical traditions. The book's contributors, while mostly rooted in ethnomusicology, examine Christianities and their musics in methodologically diverse ways, engaging with musical sound and structure, musical and social history, and ethnography of music and musical performance. These broad materials explore five themes: music and missions, music and religious utopias (and other oppositional religious communities), music and conflict, music and transnational flows, and music and everyday life. The volume as a whole, then, approaches Christian groups and their musics as diverse and powerful windows into the way in which music, religious ideas, capital, and power circulate (and change) between places, now and historically. It also tries to take account of the religious self-understandings of these groups, presenting Christian musical practice and exchange as encompassing and negotiating deeply felt and deeply rooted moral and cultural values. Given that the centerpiece of the volume is Christian religious musical practice, the volume reveals the active role music plays in maintaining and changing religious, moral, and cultural values in a long history of intercultural and transnational encounters.
Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud
Author: Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-12-23
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1107023017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of connections between Christian monastic texts and Babylonian Talmudic traditions.
