The Hymnal

The Hymnal
Author: Christopher N. Phillips
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2018-08-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1421425939

Understanding the culture of living with hymnbooks offers new insight into the histories of poetry, literacy, and religious devotion. It stands barely three inches high, a small brick of a book. The pages are skewed a bit, and evidence of a small handprint remains on the worn, cheap leather covers that don’t quite close. The book bears the marks of considerable use. But why—and for whom—was it made? Christopher N. Phillips’s The Hymnal is the first study to reconstruct the practices of reading and using hymnals, which were virtually everywhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Isaac Watts invented a small, words-only hymnal at the dawn of the eighteenth century. For the next two hundred years, such hymnals were their owners’ constant companions at home, school, church, and in between. They were children's first books, slaves’ treasured heirlooms, and sources of devotional reading for much of the English-speaking world. Hymnals helped many people learn to memorize poetry and to read; they provided space to record family memories, pass notes in church, and carry everything from railroad tickets to holy cards to business letters. In communities as diverse as African Methodists, Reform Jews, Presbyterians, Methodists, Roman Catholics, and Unitarians, hymnals were integral to religious and literate life. An extended historical treatment of the hymn as a read text and media form, rather than a source used solely for singing, this book traces the lives people lived with hymnals, from obscure schoolchildren to Emily Dickinson. Readers will discover a wealth of connections between reading, education, poetry, and religion in Phillips’s lively accounts of hymnals and their readers.

Original Hymns and Poems

Original Hymns and Poems
Author: James Grant
Publisher:
Total Pages: 78
Release: 1862
Genre: Christian poetry, English
ISBN:

6 poems and 16 hymns without music.

40 Favorite Hymns on the Christian Life

40 Favorite Hymns on the Christian Life
Author: Leland Ryken
Publisher: P & R Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2019
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781629956176

Providing literary analysis and historical background, Leland Ryken invites us to experience great hymns as powerful works of devotional poetrysavoring elements that we easily miss when singing them.

The Life That Wins

The Life That Wins
Author: Watchman Nee
Publisher: Christian Fellowship Publishers
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1986-04-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0935008667

These messages from the great Chinese pastor and teacher, Watchman Nee, on the subject of the overcoming Christian life were delivered at a conference in Shanghai, China in 1935.

The One Year Book of Poetry

The One Year Book of Poetry
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Christian poetry, American
ISBN: 9780842337120

This daily devotional of Bible-inspired poetry contains some of the most eloquent, inspiring, and profound poetry ever written. Readers will glean understanding, wisdom, and inspiration for life's struggles and victories. But most of all, they will learn more about their Savior and be inspired to devote their lives to him wholeheartedly. Includes indexes.