2,000 Years of Christ's Power, Part Two Quotes

“In Concerning the Trinity, Richard argued that the statement “God is love” requires God to be a Trinity; love must be a relationship between persons, and where two persons love each other perfectly, they will desire a third person whom they can both love in common.”
― Nicholas R. Needham, 2,000 Years of Christ's Power Vol. 2: The Middle Ages

“In fact, it was not until after Aquinas, in the 14th and 15th centuries, that the playing of musical instruments became a widespread, regular and accepted feature of ordinary Western worship.”
― Nicholas R. Needham, 2,000 Years of Christ's Power Vol. 2: The Middle Ages

“We first hear of a musical instrument being used in Western worship in the 8th century, for in the year 757 the Frankish king Pepin presented an organ to the church of Saint Corneille in Compiegne, north of Paris.”
― Nicholas R. Needham, 2,000 Years of Christ's Power Vol. 2: The Middle Ages

“The period which this Chapter covers witnessed the dawn of a revolution in Western worship – the introduction of musical instruments. As we saw in Volume One, the early Church did not use instruments in its worship, regarding them as Jewish or Pagan, but not part of the apostolic tradition of Christian worship.”
― Nicholas R. Needham, 2,000 Years of Christ's Power Vol. 2: The Middle Ages