Luther’s Law and Gospel in Josquin
There has been quite a lot of Reformation-themed posts going around on these Ad Fontes blogs (can anyone tell me why? I don’t get it, is something going on this…
Essays, columns, and reflections from Ad Fontes.
There has been quite a lot of Reformation-themed posts going around on these Ad Fontes blogs (can anyone tell me why? I don’t get it, is something going on this…
Given how much I am going on all the time about singing in the home (for instance, recently on the Ad Fontes podcast), a friend has requested a list of…
Pope John XXII had some specific opinions on church music, which he expressed in his bull Docta sanctorum patrum. But some disciples of a new school, occupying themselves with the…
My title is one of the famous, controversial sentences from a famous (amongst a certain crowd), controversial book, which I heartily commend to you all. The philosopher Lydia Goehr wrote…
There are always a few books on the shelf in the bathroom that one grabs in those moments of peaceful, if somewhat uncomfortable, solitude. I am careful to select those…
In 1500, the churches were full of musicians rather than theologians. And Erasmus was not happy.
In Joseph Herl’s excellent Worship Wars in Early Lutheranism: Choir, Congregation, and Three Centuries of Conflict, he quotes Luther responding to his congregation in Wittenburg after the introduction of the…
One of the central hypotheses that this blog will explore, over the long haul, is the following: ever since the Reformation, it has been difficult to find ways of funding…
“On July 31, 1554, the degree of master of philosophy was publicly conferred on Cureus by the most illustrious and eminent dean of the philosophical college, Caspar Peucer, (a man…
I would like to start a series of short blogposts, “Church Music Is Just the Worst (Circa)” focusing on primary sources and first-hand accounts of people in the western church…
