Worship: Augustine on Music and Worship
Teaching on Worship from Augustine of Hippo: Augustine on Music and Worship
This is a spiritual discipline on music and worship, drawing on Psalm 150, Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16.
Augustine wrestled honestly with the power of music in worship. In the Confessions he wrote: "When I remember the tears I shed at the song of the Church in the early days of my recovered faith, and how even now I am moved not by the singing but by what is sung, when it is sung with a clear voice and fitting modulation, I recognize again the great benefit of this practice."…
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