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What Can the Early Christians Teach Us about Music?
Calvin Stapert
Calvin Symposium on Worship 2007

The early Christian era is so distant from us, yet early Christians faced problems that are remarkably similar to ours. This session considered what we can learn from the early Christians about dealing with musical problems in the midst of a pagan culture.

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Calvin Stapert was professor of music at Calvin College, and author of A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church (Eerdmans, 2007) and My Only Comfort: Death, Deliverance, and Discipleship in the Music of Bach (Eerdmans, 2000).