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That Divine and Most Excellent Gift

by Mark P. Bangert

  • Paperback
  • 203 pages
  • Publisher: Fortress Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

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For musicians and those who love liturgical worship

Explains the theological importance of church music

Inspires you to view music as a gift for worship

Explore Martin Luther’s unique love for music and how it continues to shape Christian worship today.

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This posthumous compilation of writing by beloved scholar, teacher, and musician Mark P. Bangert explores how, in addition to his other contributions, Martin Luther expressed a theological valuation of music that can inspire and inform today's understanding and use of music, especially in Christian worship. Luther's preface to Symphoniae iucundae ("Delightful Symphonies," 1538) presents the clearest explication of this theology. At the time of his death, Bangert had composed core components of a book on Luther's preface. Drawing on this work and other writings by Bangert on Luther and music, Martin Seltz has edited a collection that pays tribute both to Luther's theology and to Bangert's important body of scholarship.

  • Title

    That Divine and Most Excellent Gift

  • Author

    Mark P. Bangert

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press

  • Published

    October 2025

  • Weight

    318g

  • Page Count

    203

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781506486697

  • ISBN-10

    150648669X

  • Eden Code

    7078710