Baptist Hymnody in America A Documentary History

Baptist Hymnody in America is a collection of primary documents on congregational singing among Baptists in the United States from the eighteenth through the early twenty-first centuries. These documents--many of which are not readily available and are gathered here for the first time--record the struggles and triumphs of Baptists as they have sought to provide acceptable sung forms of worship, suggest how certain types of song became identified particularly as "Baptist," demonstrate the varying philosophies of hymnody expressed among Baptists for the past four hundred years, and reveal the historic diversity of Baptist worship practices. The introduction describes the purpose, format, and organization of the collection.