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A Joyful Noise

Some authors, their times and their hymns

Charles Moseley

978 1 915412 15 7
Hardback |240 pp |198 x 126 mm
Price: £16.99

‘A Joyful Noise is a marvellous volume, to be commended to clergy, musicians and congregation alike. Hymns remain a lynchpin of our faith and this book helps us think about them in new and insightful way.’

Fergus Butler-Gallie

Singing is a very important human activity, argues Charles Moseley. It is about bonding, about a sense of shared community, as we see in modern football crowds or in the marching songs of armies. Singing together can cement an ideology: words matter. Skilled songwriters can pack of lot of doctrine or spiritual insight into a well-constructed hymn – those of Charles Wesley, Aquinas’ great hymns for Corpus Christi, or Prudentius’ for the Nativity.

A Joyful Noise is an enlightening and informative introduction to some of the greatest hymn writers of the Christian tradition including; Charles Wesley, Aquinas, Prudentius, Christopher Wordsworth, Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander and Robert Bridges.

Charles Moseley is an English writer, scholar, and teacher, and a former fellow of Wolfson College and Life Fellow of Hughes Hall in Cambridge, as well as a fellow of the English Association, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Royal Society of Arts. His most recent books include Hungry Heart Roaming: An Odyssey of Sorts and Between the Tides: A Lancashire Youth.
ISBNs: 9781915412157 978-1-915412-15-7 Title: a joyful noise