Using Vintage Hymns in Worship
Hidden Treasures Rediscovered for Today's Church
Erschienen am 1. Juni 2021
104 Seiten
978-1-78959-166-8 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
For Christian believers, hymns offer an opportunity to bear witness to their faith and lift their voices in praise of God with their fellow worshippers. Hymns, even those dulled by familiarity, far from being trite and complacent, have the power to alert us to grave dangers facing the world today, and even to move us to decisive action. It is tempting to disregard older hymns thinking of them as past their sell-by date, yet for many of the faithful, these traditional texts form the bedrock of worship and liturgy. What can be done if treasured hymns express social attitudes we no longer share, for example with regard to gender or colonialism?Gillian Warson blows the dust off unfashionable texts and argues that they can now be regarded as "e;vintage"e;. She argues that hymn singing can continue as a flourishing tradition with old and new coexisting comfortably alongside each other, and invites us to see that vintage hymn texts are lovingly preserved so that they can be enjoyed for generations to come.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
Durham
Großbritannien
Dateigröße
0,40 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78959-166-8 (9781789591668)
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Inhalt
- Intro
- Introduction
- The tradition of hymn singing
- Why sing hymns?
- Old-fashioned or vintage?
- Just for church?
- Familiarity = contempt?
- What can we learn from the past?
- Why hymnbooks?
- Keeping the tradition of hymn singing vibrant
- To keep or not to keep?
- Why keep singing vintage hymns?
- Lost hymns, lost words?
- Changing words, same belief?
- Is God an Englishman?
- Where is the battle front?
- Altering texts
- Tinkering or tweaking?
- Why alter texts?
- Same word, several meanings
- Hymns or hers?
- A new tradition?
- A new tradition
- Old texts, new ideas?
- The usual suspects?
- Conclusion
- All things bright and beautifulâ?"a case study
- Hymnbooks mentioned
- Notes
