"De Utilitate Cantorum": Unitive Aspects of Singing in Early Christian Thought

In this article, I draw from a number of church fathers who almost unanimously affirm the socially and cosmically unifying power of singing the Psalms. Often tacitly but unmistakably, they draw upon singing as a type of the person of Christ, a participative union of the divine with the human. Howeve...

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Main Author: MacDiarmid, Frazer (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: SAGE Publishing 2018
In: Anglican theological review
Year: 2018, Volume: 100, Issue: 2, Pages: 291-309
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
RD Hymnology
Further subjects:B PSALMS (Musical form)
B Singing Religious aspects
B Church History
B CHRISTIAN attitudes
B Doxology
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