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Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs
Worship music engages the eyes, not just the ears and tongues.
Compiled by Susan Wunderink
Worship through song seems to have always been a part of human culture, and hymnalsâ€â€compilations of written guides to such worshipâ€â€also go back a long way. Manuscripts exist of hymns performed to Egyptian and Greek gods more than 4,000 years ago.
The Psalms themselves could be considered a hymnal and are used as such even in some modern congregations.
Hymnals can be seen as a collection of the church's experiencesâ€â€its prayers, hopes, and triumphs.
Denominational hymnals in Europe and North America usually contain hymns written in all kinds of situations by all kinds of Christiansâ€â€Martin Luther, African American slaves, John Wesley, and many others.
In the past, hymnals in mission churches overseas were full of transcribed Western hymns.
Today, ethnomusicologists are busy recording the sound and sense of indigenous Christian hymns and compiling them for local congregations.
The following slideshow shows hymnals from around the world, from a medieval codex to a not-yet-written Ghanian composition...
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/200 ... -32.0.html
See also
We Are What We Sing
Our classic hymns reveal evangelicalism at its best.
Mark A. Noll
Evangelicalism at its best is the religion displayed in its classic hymns. The classic evangelical hymns contain the clearest, most memorable, cohesive, and widely repeated expressions of what it has meant to be an evangelical...
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/199 ... t8037.html
Ian
Worship music engages the eyes, not just the ears and tongues.
Compiled by Susan Wunderink
Worship through song seems to have always been a part of human culture, and hymnalsâ€â€compilations of written guides to such worshipâ€â€also go back a long way. Manuscripts exist of hymns performed to Egyptian and Greek gods more than 4,000 years ago.
The Psalms themselves could be considered a hymnal and are used as such even in some modern congregations.
Hymnals can be seen as a collection of the church's experiencesâ€â€its prayers, hopes, and triumphs.
Denominational hymnals in Europe and North America usually contain hymns written in all kinds of situations by all kinds of Christiansâ€â€Martin Luther, African American slaves, John Wesley, and many others.
In the past, hymnals in mission churches overseas were full of transcribed Western hymns.
Today, ethnomusicologists are busy recording the sound and sense of indigenous Christian hymns and compiling them for local congregations.
The following slideshow shows hymnals from around the world, from a medieval codex to a not-yet-written Ghanian composition...
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/200 ... -32.0.html
See also
We Are What We Sing
Our classic hymns reveal evangelicalism at its best.
Mark A. Noll
Evangelicalism at its best is the religion displayed in its classic hymns. The classic evangelical hymns contain the clearest, most memorable, cohesive, and widely repeated expressions of what it has meant to be an evangelical...
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/199 ... t8037.html
Ian
