CONTENTS
[I. THE HYMNODY OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH] 1 [Religious Character (Biblical and Congregational)] 1 [Poetical Quality (Lyrical Beauty)] 8 [II. THE LUTHERAN HYMN BOOK] 15 [a]Arrangements of Hymns in the Hymnal] 15 [a]Dogmatic Method of Arrangement] 15 [a]Liturgical Method of Arrangement] 15 [GENERAL SURVEY OF THE HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH HYMNS] 19 [III. EARLY CHRISTIAN HYMNODY] 19 [Early Greek Hymns] 20 [Early Latin Hymns] 22 [IV. MEDIAEVAL CHRISTIAN HYMNODY] 27 [Mediaeval Latin Hymns] 28 [Mediaeval German Hymns] 32 [Mediaeval Scandinavian Hymnody] 34 [The Sequences] 35 [St. Gall] 36 [V. LUTHERAN HYMNOLOGY] 39 [Martin Luther] 41 [German Lutheran Hymnody] 44 [Scandinavian Lutheran Hymnody] 50 [American Lutheran Hymnody] 54 [Conclusion] 61 [a]ADDENDA] [Reformed Church Song] 69 [A List of Hymnists] 71
SECTION I
THE HYMNODY OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH
The hymnody of the Lutheran Church is the body of sacred songs sung by the Church. These songs may be studied in their twofold aspect; as to their religious and as to their poetical character; they are church hymns and also sacred poems.
(The Lutheran church hymns have been called psalms. According to old linguistic usage, psalm is the same thing as sacred or religious song, not song in general. In secular Greek the word psalm does not mean song, but it refers more particularly to the ability or technique in playing upon stringed instruments—the Greek word “psalmos” means to play a stringed instrument. By psalm we mean a sacred song or lyric, as of the Old Testament Book of Psalms; a hymn.)