TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I: EARLY CHRISTIAN HYMNODY [The Early Christian Chants] 13 [Greek and Syriac Hymns] 19 [The Rise of Latin Hymnody] 25 [An Ancient Singer Who Glorified the Cross] 31 [The Golden Age of Latin Hymnody] 35 PART II: GERMAN HYMNODY [Martin Luther, Father of Evangelical Hymnody] 43 [The Hymn-Writers of the Reformation] 53 [Hymnody of the Controversial Period] 59 [The King and Queen of Chorales] 65 [Hymns of the Thirty Years’ War] 69 [A Hymn Made Famous on a Battle Field] 77 [The Lutheran Te Deum] 81 [Paul Gerhardt, Prince of Lutheran Hymnists] 85 [Joachim Neander, the Paul Gerhardt of the Calvinists] 93 [A Roman Mystic and Hymn-writer] 99 [Hymn-writers of the Pietist School] 103 [The Württemberg Hymn-writers] 111 [How a Great Organist Inspired Two Hymnists] 117 [Gerhard Tersteegen, Hymn-writer and Mystic] 123 [Zinzendorf and Moravian Hymnody] 127 [Two Famous Hymns and some Legends] 131 [Hymnody in the Age of Rationalism] 135 [Hymns of the Spiritual Renaissance] 141 PART III: SCANDINAVIAN HYMNODY [The Swedish Reformers and Their Hymns] 149 [A Hymn-Book That Failed] 155 [David’s Harp in the Northland] 161 [The Golden Age of Swedish Hymnody] 169 [The Fanny Crosby of Sweden and the Pietists] 177 [Kingo, the Poet of Easter-Tide] 185 [Brorson, the Poet of Christmas] 191 [Grundtvig, the Poet of Whitsuntide] 197 [Landstad, a Bard of the Frozen Fjords] 203 PART IV: ENGLISH HYMNODY [The Dawn of Hymnody in England] 209 [Isaac Watts, Father of English Hymnody] 215 [Doddridge: Preacher, Teacher, and Hymnist] 221 [Wesley, The Sweet Bard of Methodism] 225 [A Great Hymn that Grew out of a Quarrel] 233 [The Bird of a Single Song] 239 [England’s First Woman Hymnist] 245 [A Slave-trader Who Wrote Christian Lyrics] 249 [An Afflicted Poet Who Glorified God] 253 [An Irish Poet and His Hymns] 259 [The Hymn Legacy of an English Editor] 263 [Heber, Missionary Bishop and Hymnist] 269 [An Invalid Who Blessed the World] 275 [How Hymns Helped Build a Church] 279 [A Famous Hymn by a Proselyte of Rome] 285 [Henry Francis Lyte and His Swan Song] 291 [Sarah Adams and the Rise of Women Hymn-writers] 297 [A Hymn Written in a Stage-coach] 301 [An Archbishop’s Wife Who Wrote Hymns] 305 [Bonar, the Sweet Singer of Scotland] 311 [Two Famous Translators of Ancient Hymns] 317 [Baring-Gould and His Noted Hymn] 323 [Frances Ridley Havergal, the Consecration Poet] 327 [A Unitarian Who Gloried in the Cross] 333 [A Model Hymn by a Model Minister] 337 [Matheson and His Song in the Night] 341 Part V: AMERICAN HYMNODY [The Beginning of Hymnody in America] 347 [America’s First Woman Hymnist] 353 [Thomas Hastings, Poet and Musician] 359 [Francis Scott Key, Patriot and Hymnist] 363 [America’s First Poet and His Hymns] 367 [The Hymn-writer of the Muhlenbergs] 371 [The Lyrics of Bishop Doane] 375 [The Quaker Poet as a Hymn-writer] 379 [America’s Greatest Hymn and Its Author] 383 [Samuel Smith, a Patriotic Hymn-writer] 389 [Two Famous Christmas Hymns and Their Author] 395 [Harriet Beecher Stowe and Her Hymns] 399 [A Hymn Written on Two Shores] 407 [A Hymn That Grew out of Suffering] 411 [A Famous Hymn Written for Sailors] 415 [A Tragedy That Inspired a Great Hymn] 419 [Anna Warner and Her Beautiful Hymns] 423 [Phillips Brooks and His Carols] 427 [Women Who Wrote Hymns for Children] 431 [Fanny Crosby, America’s Blind Poet] 435 [One of America’s Earliest Gospel Singers] 441 [The Lyrist of Chautauqua] 445 [Gladden’s Hymn of Christian Service] 449 [A Hymn with a Modern Message] 453 [A Lutheran Psalmist of Today] 457 [Survey of American Lutheran Hymnody] 463 [Index of Notable Hymns] 471 [Alphabetical Index of Hymns and Sources] 477 [Authors’ and General Index] 493 [Bibliography] 503