The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical StudyClarendon Press, 1997 - 552 Seiten Why do people sing hymns? Are hymns poetry? What makes a good hymn? The author discusses the nature of hymns and their particular appeal, examines the English hymn as a literary form, and systematically describes its development through four centuries, from the Reformation to the mid-twentieth century. |
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... metrical psalms , the Calvinists not only satisfied their need for a poetry of individual spiritual experience , but also found that experience stabilized on the rock of Holy Scripture . The metrical psalms thus established themselves ...
... metrical psalms , the Calvinists not only satisfied their need for a poetry of individual spiritual experience , but also found that experience stabilized on the rock of Holy Scripture . The metrical psalms thus established themselves ...
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... metrical psalms was ever authorized by the Elizabethan settlement , but the Puritans pushed for their use wherever possible ) and as an aid to private meditation . It was , in the words of some of the title pages : Set forth and allowed ...
... metrical psalms was ever authorized by the Elizabethan settlement , but the Puritans pushed for their use wherever possible ) and as an aid to private meditation . It was , in the words of some of the title pages : Set forth and allowed ...
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... metrical psalms in their hearts . Together with the Geneva Bible , the metrical psalms thus helped to establish a temper of mind that was to have a profound significance for political events in the seventeenth century . It is possible ...
... metrical psalms in their hearts . Together with the Geneva Bible , the metrical psalms thus helped to establish a temper of mind that was to have a profound significance for political events in the seventeenth century . It is possible ...
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The State of the Art | 1 |
The Singing of Hymns and the Experience of Metre | 22 |
The Whole Booke of Psalmes | 42 |
Urheberrecht | |
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