4/14/08 HIGHBROW MOUW PRETENDING HE BELIEVES IN SOUL? "...together as a worshiping community We focused this past week at Fuller on the influences of Christian music, with the help of keynote speaker Mark Noll, a gifted scholar, author, and history professor at the University of Notre Dame. With his theme “Then Sings My Soul: The Significance of Hymns for Evangelicals,” Noll reviewed the influences of Christian music in the past three centuries. In his lectures, Noll described Christian hymnody’s transformations, beginning with the early singing of psalms to Isaac Watts’ publication of “Hymns and Spiritual Songs in 1707,” which “gave bold voice to new expressions” in Christian belief. Another transformation, after the Civil War, resulted in “movements of spiritual renewal and piety in the midst of the challenges” of that era. This was reflected in a hymnody that included, for example, “the metaphor of nautical rescue.” Noll went on to describe the transformation that began after World War II and continues to the present, when evangelicalism’s music reflects, and is even driven by, the powerful influences of television, youth culture, and popular entertainment, as well as by the innovations generated by the Vietnam era, Jesus movement, the growth of Pentecostalism and the emergence of charismatic renewal...." http://www.netbloghost.com/mouw/?m=200804

4/14/08 HIGHBROW MOUW PRETENDING HE BELIEVES IN SOUL? "...together as a worshiping community We focused this past week at Fuller on the influences of Christian music, with the help of keynote speaker Mark Noll, a gifted scholar, author, and history professor at the University of Notre Dame. With his theme “Then Sings My Soul: The Significance of Hymns for Evangelicals,” Noll reviewed the influences of Christian music in the past three centuries. In his lectures, Noll described Christian hymnody’s transformations, beginning with the early singing of psalms to Isaac Watts’ publication of “Hymns and Spiritual Songs in 1707,” which “gave bold voice to new expressions” in Christian belief. Another transformation, after the Civil War, resulted in “movements of spiritual renewal and piety in the midst of the challenges” of that era. This was reflected in a hymnody that included, for example, “the metaphor of nautical rescue.” Noll went on to describe the transformation that began after World War II and continues to the present, when evangelicalism’s music reflects, and is even driven by, the powerful influences of television, youth culture, and popular entertainment, as well as by the innovations generated by the Vietnam era, Jesus movement, the growth of Pentecostalism and the emergence of charismatic renewal...."
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