Hymnody (the singing or composition of hymns) has evolved and changed over the centuries and been affected by new thinking and developing religious beliefs: throughout the history of the church ...

The Rev. John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace” has become a national hymn, uniting people of all walks of life and reflecting ...

Five hundred years after Martin Luther and a colleague published their first hymnal, Princeton Theological Seminary Professor ...

Learn about the origins of "O Come, O Come Emmanuel,' 'O Little Town of Bethlehem' and 'Hark, the Herald Angels Sing.' ...

An original manuscript from the 7000 hymns written by Charles Wesley (1707-88), one of the founders of Methodism Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most of the content on A History ...

The English translation of the Christmas carol came about in 1851 when priest and scholar John Mason Neale’s version featured in the pages of The Hymnal Noted – a key text in the history of hymns ...

To demonstrate that connection, several of the new hymns aren’t new at all ... But as the liner notes make clear, even this has a history of being in an earlier LDS hymnbook (1841), so there ...

The first of three 2025 Hymn Festivals offered by area congregations to celebrate the “Music of the Church” will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, at Christ the Lord Lutheran, 12N462 Tina Trail ...

he notes in "Singing Church History: Introducing the Christian Story through Hymn Texts," which was published earlier this year. Music has played a key role in Christian worship since the very ...

Princeton Theological Seminary Professor Emeritus Paul Rorem has written a book that provides what his publisher calls a "history of the Christian church through the songs we sing." ...