The gospel in hymns : backgrounds and interpretations / by Albert Edward Bailey.
| Author/creator | Bailey, Albert Edward |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, ©1950. |
| Description | xx, 600 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The great rejection -- The Reformation: enter the psalters -- The fight for freedom -- The revolutionary Dr. Watts and his contemporaries -- The age of the Wesleys -- Evangelicals and dissenters -- The age of romanticism -- The Oxford Movement -- Latin hymns -- Greek hymns -- German hymns -- The Victorian era: high church hymns -- The Victorian era: the evangelical or low church hymns -- The Victorian era: broad church hymns -- The Victorian era: dissenting hymns -- Post-Victorian hymns -- American hymns: evangelical and evangelistic -- American hymns: the revolt against Calvinism -- American hymns: the new theology and the social gospel. |
| Abstract | An insight into the relation between history and hymns. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-583) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 50006256 |