A House of Praise: Collected Hymns 1961-2001

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-100159-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 592 Seiten, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 583 g

House of Praise brings together the collected hymn texts of Timothy Dudley-Smith, one of the most respected and widely published contemporary English hymnwriters. This volume of 285 hymns, including 50 new texts, is arranged thematically. It includes informative notes on all the hymns listing themes, suggested tunes, and details of interest, with an extensive series of indexes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dudley-Smith, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christlicher Gesang, Kirchenmusik, Gebetsbücher

Über Autor(innen)

Educated at Cambridge University, Timothy Dudley-Smith was ordained in 1950 as assistant curate of St Paulâs Church, Northumberland Heath. From 1953 he was head of the Cambridge University Mission in Bermondsey, London, and in the 1960s served as secretary of the Church Pastoral Aid Society. In 1973 he became Archdeacon of Norwich and in 1981 Bishop of Thetford; he retired in 1991. He is a Fellow of the Hymn Society of the United States and Canada, and in 2003
was appointed an honorary vice-president of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland. In the same year he was awarded an OBE for services to hymnody.