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Dictionary of Hymnology

Learn hymn terms, meters, forms, and the history behind Christian worship music — curated for hymn lovers, worship leaders, and students.

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161 results for “Congregational” Showing 121–140 on this page
Away, dark thoughts, awake, my joy History John Mason's 1683 nativity hymn from Songs of Praise. Aye moi psycha History Hymnological profile of the third Ode of Synesius, Bishop of Ptolemais, written upon his return to Libya and … Aye phorge, Lygia phorminx History Hymnological record of the first Ode of Synesius, Bishop of Ptolemais, detailing its Greek text origins and n… B. History Identification of hymnal signatures and initials B., B. B., B-d., B. S., and B. T. across historical hymn col… Backward with humble shame we look History Isaac Watts's 1707 hymn on the Fall and Redemption, published in Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Baptist Hymnody History Historical survey of English Baptist psalmody and hymnody from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century acro… Baptist Hymnody, English Hymnology A comprehensive historical overview of congregational song among English Baptists from the seventeenth centur… Cantemus cuncti melodum nunc Hymnology A publication, authorship, and text-critical overview of the celebrated Alleluiatic Sequence, examining its S… Christian Henry Bateman History Scottish and English minister and editor known for creating widely popular children's hymnals and writing Com… Christoph Carl Julius Aschenfeldt Hymnology A biography of the German pastor, superintendent, and hymn writer Christoph Carl Julius Aschenfeldt. Dank, Dank, sey dir für dein Erbarmen Hymnology A publication and structural history of the German Post-Communion hymn attributed to Christoph Christian Stur… Ecking, Samuel Ecking Hymnology A biographical note on the brief life and literary contributions of the eighteenth-century Baptist hymnwriter… Father, Son, and Spirit, hear Hymnology A publication and structural history of Charles Wesley’s expansive six-part poem on the Communion of Saints, … Henry Adams Sergison Atwood Hymnology A biographical sketch of Henry Adams Sergison Atwood, Anglican clergyman and hymnist. Henry Allon Hymnology Biography of Dr. Henry Allon, Independent minister, editor of the British Quarterly Review, and prominent con… Hosea Ballou History Prominent Universalist leader, preacher, and editor who contributed nearly 200 hymns to early Universalist co… I give immortal praise Hymnology A publication, structural, and textual history of Isaac Watts's famous trinitarian doxology, charting its shi… I was a wandering sheep Hymnology A publication and structural history of Dr. Horatius Bonar's popular evangelistic hymn based on 1 Peter 2:25,… James Henry Bancroft History American Congregational student and poet who authored the burial hymn Brother, though from yonder sky. Jerusalem, thy joys divine Hymnology A publication and textual history of the seventeenth-century poem on the Heavenly Jerusalem, tracking its rec…