The Singing Church: The Hymns It Wrote and SangLorenz, Edmund S. (Edmund Simon)
Religion
The Singing Church: The Hymns It Wrote and Sang
Lorenz, Edmund S. (Edmund Simon)
Hymns -- History and criticism
Often needless 64
Return to originals 65
Rights of authors 65
Christocentric 31
Congregational or Singing Hymn 27
Create Religious Atmosphere 72
Definition of Hymn 25
Definition of Hymn by Dr. Benson 28
Distinctly Religious 30
Earliest Hymns 110
Early Greek Hymns 114
Efficiency of Hymns 21
Excessive “Ego” in Hymns 81
Flaws in Hymns by Standard Writers 94
Ignorance of Hymns 21
Importance of Hymns 17
Impulse to Write Hymns 40
In Apostolic Times 104
Indifference to Hymns 50-52
Influence of Purpose on Writing 40-43
In the Epistles 105
Limitations of 58
Literary Criticism of 41, 55-57
Means of Emotional Expression 43
Meters of 33, 59-61
Of the Apocalypse 106
Of the Social Gospel 87
Origin and Development of Apostolic Hymns 104
Place of Hymns 17
Practicability of 34
Purpose of Singing Hymns 42
Purpose of User 42
Relation of Hymns to God 76-8
Relation of Hymns to Singer 79-82
Scriptural, Must be 31
Source of 103
Special Subjects 87
Succeeded Psalms 103
Supreme Theme of 88
Taken from Congregation 112
Too Intense 245
Use in Propaganda 112
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