Jon Jordan’s Reviews > Te Deum: the Church and Music > Status Update

St. Augustine: "Without committing myself to an irrevocable opinion, I am inclined to approve of the custom of singing in church, in order that by indulging the ears weaker spirits may be inspired with feelings of devotion. Yet when I find the singing itself more moving than the truth which it conveys, I confess that this is a grievous sin, and at those time I would prefer not to hear the singer."

Fairly quick but thought-provoking 59 page sweep of the role of music in the OT, NT, and even in the formation of theology.

Moving on now to a historical sweep of music in the early church.