Hymns
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As the season of Epiphany continues, my intention had been to offer a short reflection on the hymn ‘Songs of thankfulness and praise’ the text of which was written by Christopher Wordsworth, nephew of the poet William Wordsworth, as part of a collection of hymns called The Holy Year in 1862 (there is a revised… Read more
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In 1866 one Samuel Stone, curate at Windsor, published Lyra Fidelium, twelve hymns on the articles of the Apostle’s Creed, usually understood to have been in response to dissention in the Church of South Africa about the teachings of a Bishop J W Colenso. Of this set, the most famous and most often still sung… Read more
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One of the questions I sometimes challenge myself with is, if music is itself making a theological contribution, and not only the texts which might be set to music, what theological difference is there to singing the same text to a different tune? This is a parallel version of a set of questions often asked… Read more
Theology in Music 