Peter Leithart observes:
"Beginning with the charismatic revival and the Jesus movement, the most
theologically conservative Protestant churches abandoned the tradition
of Christian music and took on musical styles adapted from popular
music. It has been an astonishingly rapid and thoroughgoing change.
Praise songs routed gospel hymns, and today Reformation-era Psalms and
chorales are unknown in wide swathes of American Protestantism.
Presbyterian theologian T. David Gordon captures the shift with an
anecdote about a theology student at a Protestant seminary puzzled by a
professor’s reference to Luther’s 'A Mighty Fortress.' Musically,
evangelicals are all charismatics now."
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