Sentences with phrase «new hymnody»

There has been an explosion of creative new hymnody, reflected and made available in a host of new hymnals.

Proponents of classic hymns and choral music, scions of alternative new hymnody and «world music,» and lovers of the good ol' «Sankey Doodle» gospel songs have all registered their dismay, as evidenced by the infamous «worship wars» which have plagued churches in recent years.

In the process they found themselves in contact with people who not only had musical tastes that were more to the liturgical side, but who — even when seeking worship «reform» — looked to the developing body of folk masses and new hymnody rather than to the Fanny Crosby — Ira Sankey — Francis Havergal — Homer Rodeheaver canon or the world of Gospel music.

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Those who were at the society's Chicago convocation were exposed to better examples of this generation's hymnody, and saw a new vitality in the Hymn Society of America that its press releases don't begin to convey.

Up to now the society has often seemed a more conservative than innovative force in American hymnody, issuing pamphlets of «new» hymns redolent of a bygone era.

Responsible theological teachers did not take at their face value the pictures of heaven which were found in hymnody, nor did they regard the somewhat extraordinary set of images in Revelation as being an exact representation — indeed, these images, laden with Jewish eschatological conceptions of the nature of the Kingdom of God when there should be «a new heaven and a new earth» were sometimes felt to be slightly embarrassing.