  - PART I: EARLY CHRISTIAN HYMNODY
- The Early Christian Chants 13
- Greek and Syriac Hymns 19
- The Rise of Latin Hymnody 25
- An Ancient Singer Who Glorified the Cross 31
- The Golden Age of Latin Hymnody 35
- PART II: GERMAN HYMNODY
- Martin Luther, Father of Evangelical Hymnody 43
- The Hymn-Writers of the Reformation 53
- Hymnody of the Controversial Period 59
- The King and Queen of Chorales 65
- Hymns of the Thirty Years’ War 69
- A Hymn Made Famous on a Battle Field 77
- The Lutheran Te Deum 81
- Paul Gerhardt, Prince of Lutheran Hymnists 85
- Joachim Neander, the Paul Gerhardt of the Calvinists 93
- A Roman Mystic and Hymn-writer 99
- Hymn-writers of the Pietist School 103
- The WÜrttemberg Hymn-writers 111
- How a Great Organist Inspired Two Hymnists 117
- Gerhard Tersteegen, Hymn-writer and Mystic 123
- Zinzendorf and Moravian Hymnody 127
- Two Famous Hymns and some Legends 131
- Hymnody in the Age of Rationalism 135
- Hymns of the Spiritual Renaissance 141
- PART III: SCANDINAVIAN HYMNODY
- The Swedish Reformers and Their Hymns 149
- A Hymn-Book That Failed 155
- David’s Harp in the Northland 161
- The Golden Age of Swedish Hymnody 169
- The Fanny Crosby of Sweden and the Pietists 177
- Kingo, the Poet of Easter-Tide 185
- Brorson, the Poet of Christmas 191
- Grundtvig, the Poet of Whitsuntide 197
- Landstad, a Bard of the Frozen Fjords 203
- PART IV: ENGLISH HYMNODY
- The Dawn of Hymnody in England 209
- Isaac Watts, Father of English Hymnody 215
- Doddridge: Preacher, Teacher, and Hymnist 221
- Wesley, The Sweet Bard of Methodism 225
- A Great Hymn that Grew out of a Quarrel 233
- The Bird of a Single Song 239
- England’s First Woman Hymnist 245
- A Slave-trader Who Wrote Christian Lyrics 249
- An Afflicted Poet Who Glorified God 253
- An Irish Poet and His Hymns 259
- The Hymn Legacy of an English Editor 263
- Heber, Missionary Bishop and Hymnist 269
- An Invalid Who Blessed the World 275
- How Hymns Helped Build a Church 279
- A Famous Hymn by a Proselyte of Rome 285
- Henry Francis Lyte and His Swan Song 291
- Sarah Adams and the Rise of Women Hymn-writers 297
- A Hymn Written in a Stage-coach 301
- An Archbishop’s Wife Who Wrote Hymns 305
- Bonar, the Sweet Singer of Scotland 311
- Two Famous Translators of Ancient Hymns 317
- Baring-Gould and His Noted Hymn 323
- Frances Ridley Havergal, the Consecration Poet 327
- A Unitarian Who Gloried in the Cross 333
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