Hymns and the Christian Myth

By Lionel Adey

From its beginnings in the Bible, Christian hymnology has fulfilled three functions -- praise, recital and teaching of the Myth, and collective and personal adoration as well as the foundation and worship of the church. In Hymns and the Christian Myth , Lionel Adey demonstrates that over the centuries shifts emphasizing particular elements of the Christian faith accord with the interests and concerns of the times in which the hymns were composed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077480257X
• ISBN13: 9780774802574
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"