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Summary:
by Sherman Isbell


The Normative in Apostolic Worship

The majority report (1947) of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church's Committee on Song in the Public Worship of God gave what has become an influential argument for disregarding inspiration as a criterion for the selection of worship song. This argument by the majority may be divided into four elements for consideration. First, the majority report pleads that an argument based on the distinction between inspired and uninspired song "sometimes fails to take due account of the fact that the New Testament deals with conditions in the early church which have not been continued and which cannot be our present norm...

Category: Systematic Theology

Tags: Ecclesiology, worship, Psalms, regulative principle, worship song, Apostolic Worship