A Joyful Noise
Some authors, their times and their hymns
Charles Moseley
Hardback |240 pp |198 x 126 mm
‘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.’
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.