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Psalms and Hymns, for the Use of the German Reformed Church, in the United States of America (1834) [246] [247] Hymns for the Reformed Church in the United States (1874) [248] The Hymnal of the Reformed Church in the United States (1890) [249] [250] Faith and Hope Hymnss (1912) [251] Wartburg Hymnal: for church, school and home (1918) [252]
Seventeenth-century Reformed theologians did not reach a consensus on the propriety of hymns in worship, and several argued that they were permissible, including John Ball and Edward Leigh. Thomas Ford also seems to have favored an inclusive rather than exclusive psalmody, while clearly preferring biblical psalms.
This psalter was to become a prototype for Reformed worship, but Calvin did not have any objection to the use of original hymns in other churches, and he did not appeal to scripture in his preface to the psalter justifying his preference for the Psalms.[1]: 42, 45 Other Presbyterian denominations hold exclusively to the psalms in metre.
The 1961 hymnal was originally compiled by the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in 1961 [1] as a hymnbook that would include traditional hymns as well as musical arrangements of the Psalms suitable for Reformed worship. The 1990 hymnal is official (but not required) in the Presbyterian Church in America and Orthodox Presbyterian Church, [2] [3] and ...
During the pre-reformation days, it was not customary for lay members of a church's congregation to communally sing hymns. Singing was done by the priests and other clergy; communal singing of Gregorian chant was the function of professional choirs, or among communities of monks and nuns.
Reformed worship is religious devotion to God as conducted by Reformed or Calvinistic Christians, including Presbyterians. Despite considerable local and national variation, public worship in most Reformed and Presbyterian churches is governed by the Regulative principle of worship.
Other Reformed churches participated in early phases of the development of a new Book of Common Worship. Work resumed on a revised Book of Common Worship when in 1961 the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., and in 1963 the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., adopted new directories. The committee distributed two trial use pieces prior to ...
Within a Presbyterian Hymnbook, the Paraphrases are usually printed in a separate section from Psalms and Hymns. Within the Church Hymnary Revised Edition of the Presbyterian Hymnbook there are 67 Paraphrases. The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook (2004) includes 66 Paraphrases along with 150 Psalms of the Irish Psalter and a further 669 hymns and song.