At the Lighting of the Lamps: Hymns of the Ancient Church

The Christians from the very outset committed their theology and prayer to the form of the song. The hymnal elements in the New Testament are among the earliest of all strands some of them composed within a decade of the death of Jesus. From the third century onwards it was their custom to light the lamps of the house when dusk fell and sing a hymn for the onset of evening marked the new liturgical day in the earliest centuries. This collection of some of the most charming of the hymns of the Ea...See More