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Singing Church History

Introducing the Christian Story through Hymn Texts
  • ISBN-13: 9781506496214
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • By Paul Rorem
  • Price: AUD $73.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 14/05/2024
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 140.00mm) 175 pages Weight: 318g
  • Categories: Church history [HRCC2]
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Christianity is a "singing church," with biblical foundations and centuries of examples in the Psalms and canticles, favorite hymns, and gospel songs. And this singing church has a history. Through engaging tales of the stories behind this music and its authors, Rorem makes church history come alive. Singing Church History journeys through an ecumenical history of church music from early and medieval times through the Reformation and the early modern world, into American and World Christianity. Throughout, Rorem shows us how these familiar hymn texts have us "singing church history" on Sunday mornings without even knowing it. Rorem's analysis of well-known hymns from diverse strains of Christianity makes Singing Church History a useful resource for students, congregations, and curious readers. Placing familiar music from Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran, Pietist, Methodist, American evangelical, historically Black, and Christian communities around the world into historical context helps us appreciate the ecumenical nature of our musical traditions. Singing Church History includes hymn texts for easy reference.
Paul Rorem is Benjamin B. Warfield Professor of (Medieval) Ecclesiastical History Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary and a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He has published extensively in the field of early and medieval Christian history. Rorem serves as editor of Lutheran Quarterly and the Lutheran Quarterly Books series at Fortress Press.
1. Prelude 2. The Western and Latin Early Church (100-500) 3. The Eastern and Orthodox Early Church (100-800) 4. The "Dark" Ages? (500-1100) 5. The Middle Ages (1100-1300) 6. Reforms before the Reformation (1300-1500) 7. Martin Luther and the First Hymnals (1500-1600) 8. Lutherans and Pietists (1600-1750) 9. Isaac Watts and the Wesley Brothers 10. American Revivals and the Social Gospel (1800-1950) 11. African American Songs (1850-1950) 12. Hymns of World Christianity (1950- ) Postlude Appendices
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