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Our Hymn Writers and Their Hymns

Faith Cook

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Our Hymn Writers and Their Hymns

Faith Cook

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God’s people have always had a reason to sing. Hymns feed and strengthen faith and a healthy diet of songs fuels our devotion and discipleship.

Our Hymn Writers and Their Hymns traces the development of the hymn from the early Christian church to the present day and helps us better understand the history and tradition of Christian singing.


Biographies include:

·      Isaac Watts 

·      Philip Doddridge 

·      Charles Wesley 

·      William Williams 

·      Joseph Hart 

·      Augustus M. Toplady 

·      John Newton 

·      William Cowper 

·      James Montgomery 

·      Henry Francis Lyte 

·      Horatius Bonar 

·      Frances Ridley Havergal 

·      Fanny J. Crosby 

and more.

  • Title

    Our Hymn Writers and Their Hymns

  • Author(s)

    Faith Cook

  • ISBN

    9781783971480

  • Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Evangelical Press

  • Audience

    Adults

  • Pages

    384

  • Published

    01/01/2015

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Faith Cook

Faith Cook

Faith Cook, daughter of Stanley and Norah Rowe, missionaries of the China Inland Mission (now OMF), was born in north-west China. After missionaries were evicted from the country in 1951, she returned to the UK and attended Clarendon School in North Wales before proceeding to teacher training college in Bromley, Kent. She married Paul Cook in 1961, and they served several evangelical churches in the Midlands and Yorkshire before his retirement. They have a daughter, four sons and ten grandchildren, and now live in Breaston, Derbyshire.

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4.5 based on 2 reviews

Our Hymn Writers and Their Hymns

There aren't many books I've enjoyed so much that I've read twice, but Our Hymn Writers and Their Hymns is one of them. Faith Cook does a (typically) wonderful job of telling the stories behind some of the most famous hymns, and helps us appreciate the history and tradition of Christian singing.

Our Hymn Writers And Their Hymns will encourage you with a great cloud of witnesses who have gone before us and enliven your experience of singing the rich inheritance they have left us in their hymns.

Ben Slee

Our Hymn Writers and Their Hymns

If you are a musician, a church leader, or just someone who loves to belt out a good hymn, this book will help you grow in your appreciation of the rich history of British hymnody and the hymn writers God has so graciously gifted us with. Faith Cook is an excellent biographer as her work is meticulously researched showing the historic context and doctrinal debates from which many of our great hymns were forged.  

One striking joy of this book is the vast number of hymn verses that Cook includes within each chapter. Read them all! Bask in the poetic genius and deep love these hymn writers had for their Lord and Saviour and sing along…


Andy Fenton, Music Ministry

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