Add to ORKGMusic has the power to shape us, to mold our thoughts and actions, to teach us. It is this truth that the Protestant reformer John Calvin recognized and sought to employ as he included the singing of psalms in his liturgy. In addition to corporate worship, Calvin encouraged his congregation to view the singing of the Psalms as a spiritual discipline; that by singing, people would be trained in holiness. To accomplish this goal, he worked to collect metrical psalms—psalms rewritten with meter and rhyme in the vernacular language—into a unified psalter that could be used in daily life
Congregational singing is a source of basic theological instruction, both reflecting and shaping wha...
The history of singing the Biblical Psalms from the Old Testament goes back thousands of years. Earl...
The song of the congregation is a devotional form of musical art. The singing, to be sure, is not th...
Music has the power to shape us, to mold our thoughts and actions, to teach us. It is this truth tha...
The purpose of this essay is to evaluate the way that psalmody - specifically metrical psalmody - se...
usic has the power to shape us, to mold our thoughts and actions, to teach us. It is this truth that...
In this article, the author argues of the significance of Psalm singing in Calvin's Liturgy of the L...
Many churches in a variety of congregations are experiencing a renewed sense of the importance of si...
The Whole Booke of Psalmes, first published in 1562, became the most visible symbol of English Prote...
Different views on worship and music have been expressed by different Reformers. The Reformers rejec...
The Genevan Psalter, completed under John Calvin's supervision during the middle decades of the sixt...
Non-literate societies are often dependent on music for transmitting news and ideas because of music...
Non-literate societies are often dependent on music for transmitting news and ideas because of music...
Is there a standard as to what constitutes biblical, God-honoring congregational song lyrics? In thi...
Late eighteenth-century New England was, above all else, a society based on religion. As such, sacre...
Congregational singing is a source of basic theological instruction, both reflecting and shaping wha...
The history of singing the Biblical Psalms from the Old Testament goes back thousands of years. Earl...
The song of the congregation is a devotional form of musical art. The singing, to be sure, is not th...
Music has the power to shape us, to mold our thoughts and actions, to teach us. It is this truth tha...
The purpose of this essay is to evaluate the way that psalmody - specifically metrical psalmody - se...
usic has the power to shape us, to mold our thoughts and actions, to teach us. It is this truth that...
In this article, the author argues of the significance of Psalm singing in Calvin's Liturgy of the L...
Many churches in a variety of congregations are experiencing a renewed sense of the importance of si...
The Whole Booke of Psalmes, first published in 1562, became the most visible symbol of English Prote...
Different views on worship and music have been expressed by different Reformers. The Reformers rejec...
The Genevan Psalter, completed under John Calvin's supervision during the middle decades of the sixt...
Non-literate societies are often dependent on music for transmitting news and ideas because of music...
Non-literate societies are often dependent on music for transmitting news and ideas because of music...
Is there a standard as to what constitutes biblical, God-honoring congregational song lyrics? In thi...
Late eighteenth-century New England was, above all else, a society based on religion. As such, sacre...
Congregational singing is a source of basic theological instruction, both reflecting and shaping wha...
The history of singing the Biblical Psalms from the Old Testament goes back thousands of years. Earl...
The song of the congregation is a devotional form of musical art. The singing, to be sure, is not th...