Author: Artistic Theologian
State of the Arts: From Bezalel to Mapplethorpe by Gene Edward Veith
Veith Jr., Gene Edward. State of the Arts: From Bezalel to Mapplethorpe. Illinois: Crossway Books, 256 pp. $14.99 What is good art, bad art, and art acceptable to God? For years this question has provided plenty of discussion and lively …
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The Anatomy of Hymnody by Austin Lovelace
Lovelace, Austin C. The Anatomy of Hymnody. Chicago: GIA Publications, Inc., 1965. To meaningfully approach the spiritual nature or “soul” of a hymn requires a masterful comprehension of the structural components that house its meaning. Austin C. Lovelace (1919–2010), who taught …
Isaac Watts’s Psalms of David Imitated at 300
Artistic Theologian 7 (2019): 45–59 Download PDF David W. Music is professor of church music at Baylor University. The history of Christian song is replete with landmark publications that signaled the beginning of a new era or a new direction …
Biblical Authority as the Basis for Singing in Benjamin Keach’s Philosophy of Congregational Song
Artistic Theologian 7 (2019): 25–44 Download PDF John Kimmons Gray is a PhD candidate at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Benjamin Keach, London Particular Baptist pastor at the church of Horsley-down, was zealous for pure worship, worship that reenacts both the …
The “New Song” of the Psalter as a Vision for Contemporary Worship Music
Artistic Theologian 7 (2019): 7–23 Download PDF W. David O. Taylor is assistant professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary. Sing to the Lord a new song; Sing to the Lord, all the earth. — Psalm 96:1 Thy …
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