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Sing a New Song: Recovering Psalm Singing for the Twenty-First Century is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Book of Psalms occupies a unique place in Scripture, being both the Word from God and words to God from his people. Unfortunately, psalm singing no longer plays an integral part of worship in most evangelical churches. In this book, 13 well-respected scholars urge the church to rediscover the treasure of the Psalms as they examine the history of psalm singing in the church, present biblical...

In Geneva the liturgical aesthetics were not so austere. Like Zwingli, Calvin did remove organs, not because he despised music but because he understood its attraction and potential for abuse. But Calvin dissented from Zwingli’s spiritualizing of the Pauline writings about song. Believers should really sing, both with voice and heart. The question, then, was what to sing. Calvin’s answer was simple—the Psalms. He believed this was the pattern of the early church, which picked up the practice of worship
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