The place of hymns in the New Testament and in scholarship -- The cultural matrices of early Christian worship -- The Philippian hymn -- The Colossian hymn -- The prologue of the Gospel of John -- A wider look
Summary
We know that the earliest Christians sang hymns. But are some of these early Christian hymns preserved for us in the New Testament? Matthew Gordley takes a new look at didactic hymns in the Greco-Roman and Jewish world of the early church, considering how they might function in the New Testament and what they could tell us about early Christian worship
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