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Instrumental Music: Missing More Than Music by Danny Corbitt, Psallo and Such Like

In chapter 9 of Missing More Than Music: When Disputable Matters Eclipse Worship and Unity, Danny Corbitt disassembles the psallo argument — thoroughly. Corbitt finds six different Greek words used for “sing” in the New Testament, and not a one … Continue reading

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Instrumental Music: The Patristic Evidence and the Regulative Principle, Part 2

How, then, do we explain the absence of instruments in the early church? And it is highly likely that the early church did not use instruments. My own view is that the early church took its form of worship from … Continue reading

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Instrumental Music: The Patristic Evidence and the Regulative Principle, Part 1

In contemporary Church of Christ thought, worshipping God with instrumental music is sinful because (a) it violates the Regulative Principle, that is, because it lacks authority in the scriptures, and (b) the history of the Christian church shows a uniform … Continue reading

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