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The Unfractured Faith of Erik Routley Nancy L. Graham

The Unfractured Faith of Erik Routley By Nancy L. Graham

The Unfractured Faith of Erik Routley by Nancy L. Graham


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Nancy L. Graham unveils the extraordinary life of the churchman and musician, Erik Routley, the most significant hymnologist of the twentieth century. Using anecdotes from his personal correspondence, the foundations of his faith, scholarship, and pastoral relationships are made public.

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The Unfractured Faith of Erik Routley: From Brighton to Princeton by Nancy L. Graham

Erik Routley, Reformed churchman, musician, and theologian is arguably the most significant hymnologist of the twentieth century. In Erik Routley: From Brighton to Princeton, an Unfractured Faith, Nancy L. Graham unveils Routleys extraordinary life through his own eyes. Anecdotes from nearly forty years of correspondence with his many colleagues and friends enliven the foundations of Routleys faith, scholarship, and pastoral relationships until his untimely death in 1982. Congregation members from his churches in Edinburgh and Newcastle, former students, fellow clergy, and editorial partners recall Routleys energy, wit, straight forward observations as well as the riveting effect of his sermons and lectures. Routleys extensive works explore the prophetic and timeless assertion that musicians and preachers are synergistic artists in service to the Gospel. An important part of this book is the detailed description of the Dunblane Music Consultations that lit the hymn explosion of the 1960s. The effects of these remarkable collaborations rippled through the next generations of writers and composers and are the unsung groundwork for the current approach to hymn writing.

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Erik Routley kept the study of hymnology alive at a time when no-one was much interested in writing about it, and his work is still a yardstick by which the discussion of hymns is measured. A study of his life and work is long overdue, and Nancy Graham has provided it splendidly. Her book will be welcomed by all who are interested in the study of hymns.

-- John R. Watson, professor emeritus, Durham University; author of The English Hymn, founder and co-editor of the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology

Erik Routley was one of the giants of Congregationalism in the twentieth century. His contributions to church life, chaplaincy, and theological education were immense, but dwarfed by his incredible contribution to church music and hymnody. The lack of a biography has been a serious gap, which has now been rectified by this outstanding publication. Nancy Graham has travelled the globe chasing down every piece of archive material, and every possible person to interview. The fruits of that work are this biography, which is thorough, comprehensive, and definitive. Anyone wanting to know about Erik Routley will find everything here.

-- Michael Hopkins, Westminster College, Cambridge

About Nancy L. Graham

Nancy L. Graham is a hymnologist, lecturer, and church musician, with a Ph.D. and Doctor of Sacred Music degree from the Graduate Theological Foundation, Foundation House in Oxford, as well as a Master of Music from Westminster Choir College.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Beginnings

Chapter 2 Magdalen and Mansfield, 1936-1943

Chapter 3 Wednesbury and Dartford, 1943-1948

Chapter 4 Mansfield College, 1948-1959

Chapter 5 Edinburgh, 1959-1967

Chapter 6 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1967-1974

Chapter 7 Princeton, 1975-1982

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Appendix I Book Dedications

Appendix II Books that Influenced Routley

Appendix III Statement from Sir Ronald Johnson

Appendix IV Letter to friends

Appendix V Letter to John Wilson about Ecumenical Praise

Appendix VI Prophetic Article from The Church Times

Additional information

NGR9781978714045
9781978714045
1978714041
The Unfractured Faith of Erik Routley: From Brighton to Princeton by Nancy L. Graham
New
Hardback
Rowman & Littlefield
2023-11-17
236
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