HYMNS, HERETICS, & HISTORY
By
Louis F. DeBoer
This book is our latest publication and is now available. It is designed to be a companion volume to Brian Schwertley's, "Exclusive Psalmody, A Biblical Defense." The latter constituted the Scriptural, the theological, the ideological argument for the singing of the Psalms in the worship of God. The former constitutes the practical and the historical argument. It shows the record of almost twenty centuries of a stream of uninspired hymns that has consistently been muddied with error, confusion, and heresy. It was written under the conviction that those who sing these hymns neither understand what they are singing nor the theology of those who composed them, for if they did they would (or should) react in surprise, disgust, and revulsion.
This book was writen because the author is convinced that most of the Lord's people really do not understand or know what they are singing. And therefore they have no conception of how displeasing these hymns are to the Lord and how totally unacceptable they are to be used in God's worship and to approach God's throne in praise.
The book deals with the following issues...
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The historical record that the Old Testament Church, the Apostolic Church, and the early Christian church all sang the Psalms exclusive of any hymns of human composition. |
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Who were the first hymnists in the post Apostolic Church? |
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Why the Gnostics and the Arians introduced hymns into the church. |
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The purposes of the first waves of uninspired hymnody in the Christian Church. |
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Why the Calvinist Reformation returned to Psalmody and rejected all hymns of human composition. |
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Why almost every wave of hymnody was launched by heretics with a theological axe to grind. |
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How even the best hymnwriters such as Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley were seriously tainted with error and introduced these errors into their hymns. |
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How gospel hymnody is actually an exercise in "Arminian evangelism." |
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How feminism and hymnody have combined to corrupt the church. |
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Why the historical record shows that hymns always displace and drive out the Psalms. |
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