Rev. Angus Stewart Getting Beyond Hagiography If one searches for information on the internet or in short books on hymn writers about Horatio Gates Spafford…
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Rev. Angus Stewart Spiritual Songs After showing in the previous article that the “psalms,” “hymns” and “songs” of Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16 are different…
Rev. Angus Stewart In the last article, we considered the uniqueness of the Psalms, as the only canonical book that God has given to His…
Rev. Angus Stewart (an edited, written version of Rev. Stewart’s opening presentation in the debate on “Exclusive Psalmody“) The Uniqueness of the Psalms The book…
Augustine (354-430) Church Father: “… the Donatists reproach us with our grave chanting of the divine songs of the prophets in our churches, while they…
When, indeed, the Holy Spirit saw that the human race was guided only with difficulty toward virtue, and that, because of our inclination toward pleasure,…
Rev. Angus Stewart Introduction Churches today usually sing three or four songs in their worship services. Every use of a “hymn” (an uninspired composition) displaces…
Bill Whyte Does God have the right to reveal how He ought to be worshipped? Or has man been given authority to offer uninspired praise…
Basil the Great (c.330-379) bishop of Caesarea, author of a famous work on the Holy Spirit: “He devised for us these harmonious melodies of the…
Athanasius (c.296-373) bishop of Alexandria, champion of orthodoxy against Arianism: (1) “I believe that a man can find nothing more glorious than these Psalms; for…
