The Hymnal: A Reading History by Christopher N. Phillips (review)

Phillips writes, “As a pastor and an educator, Watts was deeply invested in the promotion of reading as a means of piety and inward authenticity” (88). Because of Watts’s attention to developing the new genre of the hymn, he provided a way for churchgoers to worship publicly and privately, while inc...

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Published in:Christianity & literature 2022-03, Vol.71 (1), p.132-135
Main Author: Arnold, Kimberly D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Children
Hymns
Musicians & conductors
Poetry
Theology
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Summary:Phillips writes, “As a pastor and an educator, Watts was deeply invested in the promotion of reading as a means of piety and inward authenticity” (88). Because of Watts’s attention to developing the new genre of the hymn, he provided a way for churchgoers to worship publicly and privately, while increasing their ability to literarily interpret hymns. According to Phillips, “Children’s hymns enabled and enjoyed a genre fluidity between hymn, religious poem, and secular poem that had been latent in Watts’s work and had become a firm expectation by the time the Taylors were writing” (124). [...]Phillips solidifies his thesis in his final chapters, which focus on the role of the hymn in the home.
ISSN:0148-3331
2056-5666
2056-5666
DOI:10.1353/chy.2022.0009