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By Ruth Ellis Messenger
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This study examines Christian hymnody in the first three centuries, surveying extant texts, tracing Old Testament and apocryphal influences, and situating early lyric practice within a Hellenistic and pre-Augustan literary milieu. It stresses the scarcity and fragmentary nature of sources, questions definitions that separate psalms, hymns, and canticles, and emphasizes that pre-Ambrosian hymns were primarily psalmic chants rather than metrical stanzas. Groups of surviving pieces are presented as representative types, with attention to historical, liturgical, and linguistic contexts and to the methodological difficulties of interpreting early Christian poetic material.

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Title: Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries

Author: Ruth Ellis Messenger

Release date: July 14, 2010 [eBook #33160]
Most recently updated: January 6, 2021

Language: English

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THE PAPERS OF THE HYMN SOCIETY

Carl F. Price

Editor

IX

Christian Hymns
of the First Three Centuries

by
Ruth Ellis Messenger, Ph.D.

THE HYMN SOCIETY OF AMERICA
New York City
1942

PAPERS OF THE HYMN SOCIETY

Carl F. Price, Editor

I. “The Hymns of John Bunyan.”
By Louis F. Benson, D.D.
II. “The Religious Value of Hymns.”
By William P. Merrill, D.D.
III. “The Praise of the Virgin in Early Latin Hymns.”
By Ruth Ellis Messenger, Ph.D.
IV. “The Significance of the Old French Psalter.”
By Professor Waldo Selden Pratt, L.H.D., Mus.D.
V. Hymn Festival Programs.
VI. “What Is a Hymn?”
By Carl F. Price, M.A.
VII. “An Account of the Bay Psalm Book.”
By Henry Wilder Foote, D.D.
VIII. “Lowell Mason: an Appreciation of His Life and Work.”
By Henry Lowell Mason.
IX. “Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries.”
By Ruth Ellis Messenger, Ph.D.
X. Addresses at the Twentieth Anniversary of the Hymn Society of America.
XI. Hymns of Christian Patriotism.
XII. “Luther and Congregational Song.”
By Luther D. Reed, D.D., A.E.D.
XIII. “Isaac Watts and his Contribution to English Hymnody.”
By Norman Victor Hope, M.A., Ph.D.
XIV. “Latin Hymns of the Middle Ages.”
By Ruth Ellis Messenger, Ph.D.
XV. “Revival of Gregorian Chant, Its Influence on English Hymnody.”
By J. Vincent Higginson, Mus.B., M.A.

Copies of these papers at 25 cents each may be obtained from the Executive Secretary of the Hymn Society.

Note: Inquire before ordering as some numbers are temporarily out of print.

Dr. Reginald L. McAll,
2268 Sedgwick Avenue
New York 53, N. Y.

Copyright, 1942, by Hymn Society of America
Reprinted 1949