How Hillsong Church conquered the music industry

Re:How Hillsong Church conquered the music industry by JshWright on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:16AM (#18283541)

As with all things, this is complicated, and your description is only one facet of the history of music in the church.

For instance, a major component of the Protestant Reformation was encouraging congregational singing, and (particularly Calvanist) church composers of the era brought the music of the church much closer to the contemporary "popular" music of the day.

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Re:How Hillsong Church conquered the music industry by camelNotation on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @11:15AM (#18284053)

The Protestant Reformation is exclusively a modern project. When I use the word ancient, I truly mean old. Much older than the high Middle Ages.

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Re:How Hillsong Church conquered the music industry by JshWright on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @11:18AM (#18284083)

Given the fact that the Protestant Reformation encompasses roughly a quarter of the lifespan of the Christian church, I'm not sure it's fair to call it "exclusively modern".

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Re:How Hillsong Church conquered the music industry by camelNotation on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @11:25AM (#18284150)

Timespan is not as important as the shared perspective that defines modern religious thought, but even if it were, 25% is still far from a majority and, at least for most of that timeframe, Protestants were a small minority of Christians in the world (and they still are a minority).

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Re:How Hillsong Church conquered the music industry by JshWright on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @12:17PM (#18284702)

I never claimed it was a "majority". My point is that the history of the Church is complicated, and Protestantism (representing roughly of a quarter of the catholic Church in terms of both time and people). Anything that encompasses 25-35% of a whole is significant enough to not be written off as "exclusively" anything.

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