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Aquinas: The Use Of Instruments In Public Worship Is Judaizing

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  • R. Scott Clark
on September 16, 2014 | 21 Comments

Obj. 4. Further, In the Old Law God was praised with musical instruments and human song, according to Ps. 32:2, 3: “Give praise to the Lord on the harp, sing to Him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings. Sing to . . . Continue reading →

HT515 History Of Reformed Worship

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  • R. Scott Clark
on April 6, 2015

Course Description A seminar in the history Christian worship from the the patristic period through the Westminster Assembly. Students will read and discuss primary and secondary sources. Spring. 2 Credits. Course Requirements: (1) Attend all classes, complete all readings, participate in class . . . Continue reading →

Categorized Academics, Archives, Reformed Worship, Syllabi | Tagged history of worship, liturgies, Worship

From 1815: A Brief History Of Instruments In Worship

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  • R. Scott Clark
on May 18, 2015

I come now to say somewhat of the antiquity of musical instruments. But that these were not used in the Christian church in the primitive times, is attested by all the ancient writers with one consent. Hence they figuratively explain all the . . . Continue reading →

The Constantinian Turn Was Definitive

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  • R. Scott Clark
on August 19, 2015 | 2 Comments

The conversion of Constantine marks a watershed in the patristic period. In the second and third centuries the Church was a relatively private community, suffering from time to time the threats and the actuality of imperial persecution and looking for the end . . . Continue reading →

The Difference Between What We Know And What We Think We Know

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  • R. Scott Clark
on August 21, 2015 | 1 Comment

…much of what is commonly written on the history and development of the western liturgy is dependent upon reconstructions…. —D. M. Hope, “Liturgical Books” in Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright, and Edward Yarnold, ed. The Study of Liturgy (NY: OUP, 1978), 66.

Organs Were “Purely Secular” Instruments Until The 10th Century

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  • R. Scott Clark
on July 6, 2017

Known from the time of classical antiquity, the organ remained a purely secular instrument until the 10th cent., when it began to appear in major churches, such as Glastonbury and Winchester. What liturgical part, if any, it played remains largely unknown until . . . Continue reading →

Kuyper: The Introduction Of Hymns To Dutch Reformed Worship Was Done Unlawfully

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  • R. Scott Clark
on July 13, 2018 | 47 Comments

Here we come to the issue of psalms versus hymns. Our fathers ruled that, with a few exceptions, only the singing of psalms was permitted in the assembly of believers. When hymns were introduced in 1807 (by unlawful ecclesiastical might) many people . . . Continue reading →

A Brief History Of The Corruption Of Worship

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  • R. Scott Clark
on March 28, 2021 | 3 Comments

…Through these witnesses of the Holy Scriptures and a hundred more, which one may provide here, we say the pope’s Mass, which he claims to be an offering for the living and the dead, is false, and an impure sacrifice of bread . . . Continue reading →

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