Yet we should be very careful that our ears be not more attentive to the melody than our minds to the spiritual meaning of the words. Augustine also admits in another place that he was so disturbed by this danger that he sometimes wished to see established the custom observed by Athanasius, who ordered the reader to use so little inflection of the voice that he would sound more like a speaker than a singer.

John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, trans. F. L. Battles (Westminster Press, 1961), 3.20.32.

RESOURCES

• • Subscribe To The Heidelblog!
  • Download the HeidelApp on Apple App Store or Google Play
  • The Heidelblog Resource Page
  • Heidelmedia Resources
  • The Ecumenical Creeds
  • The Reformed Confessions
  • The Heidelberg Catechism
  • Recovering the Reformed Confession (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2008)
  • Why I Am A Christian
  • What Must A Christian Believe?
  • Heidelblog Contributors
  • Support Heidelmedia: use the donate button or send a check to

Heidelberg Reformation Association
1637 E. Valley Parkway #391
Escondido CA 92027
USA
The HRA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization

Post authored by:

• Inwoo Lee

  

  Inwoo Lee (BA, UCSD) earned his MA (Historical Theology) in 2020 from Westminster Seminary California and is author of “Righteous Before God: William Perkins’ Doctrine of Justification in Elizabethan England” (MA Thesis, Westminster Seminary California, 2020). He lives in the Great Seoul area, in South Korea with his wife Holly.

  More by Inwoo Lee ›