Sentences with phrase «of hymnal»

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After growing up in a traditional church where we sang out of a hymnal and had intense (and many times ridiculous) business meetings, I was craving something different when I went off to college.

In addition to the denominational hymnals are plans for any number of nondenominational hymnals, together with a proliferation of hymnal supplements intended in some cases to promote hymns not ordinarily found in mainline hymnals.

The society's giant project of compiling The Dictionary of American Hymnology — a comprehensive index to the texts of every hymnal ever published in North America — is perhaps five years from completion.

No place that sings out of hymnals can be right.

Indeed, many of the hymnals, worship books and feminist theologians that the authors criticize make room for some naming of God as «Father, Son, and Holy Spirit» so long as masculine imagery is not overly dominant.

The impact of hymnals and worship books produced in the «80s such as Lutheran Worship (1982) and its late «70s predecessor Lutheran Book of Worship (1978), Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal, music edition, 1985), the Psalter Hymnal (Christian Reformed Church in North America, 1987), Worship (Roman Catholic, third edition, 1986), Rejoice in the Lord (Reformed Church in America, 1985), the United Methodist Hymnal (1989), and similar denominational hymnals has already been significant.

American Catholic Press (ACP) is a publisher of hymnals, missals, books, and other materials for the Catholic liturgy.

Offers a large catalog of hymnals, choral music, orchestral and instrumental arrangements, and songbooks and accompaniment tracks by contemporary Christian recording artists.

Not exact matches

A UM Action fundraising letter from May this year reminded readers that twenty years ago a UMC hymnal committee attempted to drop «The Battle Hymn of the Republic» and «Onward, Christian Soldiers» as «too militarist to fit the church's current pacifist stance.»

Its kind of an interesting thought but 20 years ago, that generations 20 - 30 something's we're leaving the traditional churches we are going back to because they were sick of the legalistic, formalism, suit and tie, hymnal style church.

Americans make up the vast majority of General Conference personnel; funds, personnel and theology proceed outward from America; and translations of American hymns dominate international hymnals.

I've often watched in services as my fellow worshippers have chosen not to sing certain words, while the Presbyterian Church in America dropped the song from its hymnal after Townend and Getty denied its request to change the lyric to «The love of God was magnified».

Granted that, as in modern hymnals, expressions of religious need and aspiration originally born out of individual experience were often used in public application and became the voice of the whole people, still that very poignancy that made them thus generally applicable came from the intensely intimate experience in which they started.

The Methodist Episcopal Church included in its 1905 hymnal an order of worship that has had a most pervasive influence.

(One woman told me that the only parts of Scripture she recognizes are those found in her hymnal, that she didn't know the difference between Psalms and Proverbs, and that she was shocked to learn that some of her favorite liturgy was taken directly from the Bible.)

Devotees of the sacrificial system are well represented, as we have seen, but with catholic inclusiveness, like a true hymnal, the Psalter gives large place to the attitude of the prophets:

Some are suggesting a loose - leaf hymnal and book of readings and services which would permit tailoring by local churches.

Every Sunday of my childhood we listened to the pastor recite — at what then seemed tedious length — the General Prayer in The Lutheran Hymnal.

«The great God of heaven is come down to earth» by H. E. Bramley (1833 - 1917), English Hymnal (Oxford University Press, 1906), 29.

Dr. Morrison was always wary of mysticism, but with Dr. Willett he produced The Daily Altar, a widely used devotional book, and the useful hymnal Hymns of the United Church.

The best of the three, which seems likely to endure long enough to find it way into hymnals, sets a 20th century translation of the 13th century «Veni Sancte Spiritus» to a flowing and singable melody, harmonized with unorthodox parallelisms, its rhythm marked by alternating measures of four beats and three.

Southern Baptist hymnal editor William Reynolds, a southerner of genial warmth, was introduced as president - elect.

It was the hymnal of the temple that was rebuilt after the return of the Hebrews from exile in Babylon, and reflects the mature religious experience of the people.

Twenty years have passed since the first inclusive - language worship resources were published; most North American denominational hymnals or books of worship make some attempt at language revision.

He is a past convenor of the Church of Scotland's Panel on Worship and currently directs the committee revising that church's hymnal.

It is no accident that the most heated quarrel in editing the new United Methodist Hymnal revolved around the use or rejection of «Onward, Christian Soldiers,» a hymn deemed too militaristic for some.

Once we sang an entire hymnal, one verse of each, during the distribution.

Those who bewail the abstractions of theology teachers will be surprised to know of these churchly concerns in systematics classes, as will the Atlantic readers who were recently led to believe that «the hands that shape the souls» of the next generation of pastors do not hold hymnals.

A hymnal can be used as a great primer for learning about aspects of the faith: grace, reconciliation, sovereignty, redemption, forgiveness of sins and more.

Think about some of the songs in our hymnals and what they describe about God's nature.

Most interestingly, hymnals can be viewed as history books of the Church and its great leaders.

Last, but decidedly not least, the richly theological hymns of John's brother Charles, and the later compositions of Wesleyan hymn writer Fanny Crosby, continue to enrich the hymnals of churches far beyond the bounds of Methodism — from Presbyterians to Lutherans.

Many denominations have the «Order of Marriage» included in their hymnal along with other worship settings and hymns.

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

Edith also knows that the pastor is bringing a copy of the new denominational hymnal to the meeting because she believes that it «dresses up» the traditional forms of worship with new «inclusive» language and hymn selection.

Three different studies in different denominational traditions show that lament psalms and songs of lament are conspicuously absent in our liturgy, our hymnals, and our worship services.

The search for musical roots goes on in many ways, but in the hymnals and worship books — the basic resources of the church musician — one sees the process focused more clearly than in any other endeavor.

(One might argue that hymnals, prayer books and bulletins potentially create the same sort of isolation or individualism in worship, and it's possible that they do.

Many of these new hymnals and worship books, like their predecessors, will spawn new congregational, choral and organ music to support their use.

This search is most clearly reflected in each new denominational hymnal and worship book as it shapes worship practices and wrestles with what it means to be Methodist, Episcopalian, Lutheran or Reformed in the last decade of the 20th century.

Recently, the wrath of God became a point of controversy in the decision of the Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song to exclude from its new hymnal the much - loved song «In Christ Alone» by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend.

They begin impressionistically with some symptoms of popular change: the growing acceptability among Catholics of the iconic Baptist evangelist Billy Graham, the adoption by Catholics of the Alpha courses initiated at Holy Trinity Brompton, the inclusion of hymns by Protestant authors in Catholic hymnals, the welcome afforded by many evangelicals to the witness and writings of Pope John Paul II, a favorable review by the star evangelical intellectual J.I. Packer of a book titled The Born - Again Catholic (1983), and so on.

Most denominational houses have come to rely for that kind of support on staples such as hymnals, service books and curricula which after their initial development produce regular income and require little attention.

The change is now affecting the language of denominational hymnals.

The authors of the hymn insisted on the original wording, and the Committee voted nine to six that «In Christ Alone» would not be among the eight hundred or so items in their new hymnal.

Dorothy: My problem is that even though I have a very large vocabulary, I find it a challenge to pronounce the words and I can't understand what a lot of them mean — not necessarily the Psalms, but in our old hymnal...

Beth: They're better in the new hymnal, but still many of them don't mean anything to me.

However, earlier this month the Orthodox church's top Moscow lawyer did state that a court's decision to fine the Salvation Army and destroy its improperly marked publications — including 40 Bibles and hundreds of songbooks and hymnals — was a «great overreach.»

After a recent presentation to an editorial committee for a new hymnal, the head of the project told us how startled many of the denominational executives were at the outpouring of response to proposed changes in the language and selection of hymns.