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Hymns and Hymnody: Historical and Theological Introductions, Volume 2: From Catholic Europe to Protestant Europe is unavailable, but you can change that!

Hymns and the music the church sings are tangible means of expressing worship. And while worship is one of, if not the, central functions of the church along with mission, service, education, justice, and compassion, and occupies a prime focus of our churches, a renewed sense of awareness to our theological presuppositions and cultural cues must be maintained to ensure a proper focus in worship. ...

that God extends his infinite love to the lapsed should they rejoin the fellowship of Huguenot churches.23 The French psalter therefore carries with it the message of God’s unfailing love, parental protection, fatherly discipline, as well as divine preservation extracted from the Old Testament through the lens of the New Testament to be delivered to Huguenot churches under Calvin’s careful systematic oversight and his astute theological acumen. Calvin’s theology of worship
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