Posts Tagged ‘Music’
Is CCM A Cultural Thing?
Frank Garlock Before there can ever be a discussion about whether or not anything belongs to a particular culture, we must come to an understanding of what culture is. According to Webster’s Dictionary, culture is a French word that comes from the Latin colere or cultura and means “to cultivate” or “the characteristic features and…
Read MoreA few thoughts on ‘Reformed Rap’–and other notes
The Eclectic Web Our friend and often a contributor to P&D, Brian Collins offers a few thoughts on the rap controversy. He poses some questions that need to be answered. For example: Why is there such invective toward men who counsel against the use of rap music for Christian purposes? Do they not have the…
Read MoreBaptist Liberals and other stories
The Eclectic Web Our lead story has this headline: God too big for one religion. So says Baptist pastor Joe Phelps. He is the pastor of Highland Baptist Church, a church affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Kentucky Baptist Fellowship, a group that has partner churches in the CBF and the more conservative…
Read MoreMusic in the perspective of Creation, Fall, and Redemption – expanded edition
Brian Collins One of our regular contributors, Brian Collins, recently wrote an excellent piece on music at his blog, Exegesis and Theology. Before reading this article, you might like to read his initial offering and the comments. The piece is called “Music in the Perspective of Creation, Fall, and Redemption”. When I read the article,…
Read MoreThe Eclectic Web–2013/05/06
It has been some weeks since we’ve taken our eclectic wandering around the world wide web. I’ve accumulated a number of articles that might be of interest to our readers, so today I thought we should take the time to organize and post them. Topics: Parenting – are we over-doing it with protecting our kids?…
Read MoreThere Is a Fountain Filled with Blood • William Cowper (1731–1800)
Vicki Johnson William Cowper (pronounced Cooper), one of England’s most beloved and revered poet laureates, struggled throughout his life in the deep sea of mental illness. His literary achievements as a poet, translator, and letter writer brought him worldly fame, but his contributions as a hymn writer brought glory to the God whom he loved…
Read More“A New Song for an Old World” (Final Excerpts)
More notes & excerpts from Calvin R. Stapert’s book, A New Song for an Old World. Previous excerpts: One •Two • Three• Four • Five • Six • Seven • Eight In our last post, we began reviewing Staperts assessments of three arguments that moderns use to deny that music may be pernicious. The first…
Read More“A New Song for an Old World” (Notes & Excerpt 8)
More notes & excerpts from Calvin R. Stapert’s book, A New Song for an Old World. Previous excerpts: One • Two • Three• Four • Five • Six • Seven Stapert believes that modern-day Christians should follow the church fathers in rejecting pagan music: “In our sensation-hungry, pleasure-mad society, we should be no less courageous…
Read MoreNew Heart, New Spirit, New Song
Proclaim & Defend is pleased to announce the publication of a new book by Doug Bachorik. The book is available now from Xulon Press. Also available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and The Book Depository (free shipping world-wide). For a taste of the content, see this article, an excerpted chapter from the book: Music and…
Read More“A New Song for an Old World” (Notes & Excerpt 7)
More notes & excerpts from Calvin R. Stapert’s book, A New Song for an Old World. Previous excerpts: One • Two • Three • Four • Five • Six The church’s music was influenced by Jewish temple music. (Stapert, 152-153) “Jewish psalmody was word-oriented, a characteristic that set it apart from the music of the…
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