Exploring Texts, Contexts, and Significance
by
Matthew E. Gordley
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
We know that the earliest Christians sang hymns. Paul encourages believers to sing "psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs." And at the dawn of the second century the Roman official Pliny names a feature of Christian worship as "singing alternately a hymn to Christ as to God." But...