Christianity and Music

  • Arnold, Jonathan. Sacred music in secular society. Farnham; Burlington: Ashgate Pub., 2014.*
  • Begbie, Jeremy. Theology, music and time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.*
  • Best, Harold. Music through the eyes of faith. New York, NY: HarperOne Publishers 1993.*
  • Bradley, C. Randall. From memory to imagination: reforming the church’s music.             Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2012.*
  • Campling, Christopher R. The food of love: reflections on music and faith. London: SCM Press, 1997.*
  • Doran, Carol and Thomas H. Troeger. Trouble at the table: gathering the tribes for worship. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1999.*
  • Dowley, Tim. Christian music: a global history. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2011.*
  • Garside, Charles. The origins of Calvin’s theology of music: 1536-1543. Philadelphia, PA: The American Philosophical Society, 1979.*
  • Gilmour, Michael J. Call me the seeker: listening to religion in popular music. New York, NY: Continuum, 2005.*
  • Griffiths, Alan. A basic Catholic dictionary: church architecture, creeds, emblems, liturgy, ministry, music, religious life, sacraments, saints, scripture. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2003.*
  • Harmon, Kathless A. The mystery we celebrate, the song we sing: a theology of liturgical music. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2008.*
  • Haskel, Marilyn L., ed. What would Jesus sing?: experimentation and tradition in church music. New York, NY: Church Publishing 2007.*
  • Ingalls, Monique M. and Amos Yong, ed. The spirit of praise: music and worship in global Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015.*
  • Leaver, Robin A. Luther’s liturgical music: principles and implications. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm B Eerdmans Publishing 2007.*
  • Liesch, Barry Wayne. The new worship: straight talk on music and the church. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2004.*
  • Lucarini, Dan. Why I left the contemporary Christian music movement: confessions of a former worship leader. New York, NY: Evangelical Press 2002.*
  • Meyer, Leonard B. Music the arts and ideas: patterns and predictions in Twentieth-century culture. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994.*
  • Miller, Steve. The contemporary Christian music debate: worldly compromise or agent of renewal? Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1993.*
  • Osbeck, Kenneth W. The endless song: 13 lessons in music and worship of the church. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1987.*
  • Poultney, David. Dictionary of Western Church Music. Chicago, IL : American Library Association, 1991.*
  • Powell, Mark Allan. Encyclopedia of contemporary Christian music. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2002.*
  • Quasten, Johannes. Music and worship in pagan and Christian antiquity. Washington, DC: National Association of Pastoral Musicians, 1983.*
  • Routley, Erik. The church and music: an enquiry into the history, the nature, and the scope of Christian judgment on music. London: Gerald Duckworth, 1950.*
  • Saliers, Don E. Music and theology: horizons in theology. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2007.*
  • Sample, Tex. The spectacle of worship in a wired world: electronic culture and the gathered people of God. Tennessee, USA: Abingdon Press, 1998.*
  • Scholes, Percy Alfred, and John Owen Ward. The Oxford companion to music. London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1970.
  • Sharp, Avery T. Church and worship music: an annotated bibliography of contemporary scholarship: a research and information guide. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005.*
  • Viladesau, Richard. Theology and the arts: encountering God through music, art and rhetoric. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2000.*
  • Wibberley, Brian. Music and religion: a historical and philosophical survey. London: Epworth Press, 1934.*
  • Woods, Robert and Brian Walrath, ed. The message in the music: studying contemporary praise and worship. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2007.*

 

*Refers to those written from a Christian perspective.