Short Name: | Thomas H. Troeger |
Full Name: | Troeger, Thomas H., 1945-2022 |
Birth Year: | 1945 |
Death Year: | 2022 |
Thomas Troeger (1945-2022), professor of Christian communication at Yale Divinity school, was a well known preacher, poet, and musician. He was a fellow of Silliman College, held a B.A. from Yale University; B.D. Colgate Rochester Divinity School; S.T. D. Dickinson College, and was awarded an honorary D.D. from Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1970 and the Episcopal Church in 1999, and remained dually aligned with both traditions. Troerger led conferences and lectures in worship and preaching throughout North America, as well as in Denmark, Holland, Australia, Japan, and Africa. He served as national chaplain to the American Guild of Organists, and for at least three years he hosted the Season of Worship broadcast for Cokesbury. He was president of the Academy of Homiletics as well as Societas Homiletica. He had, as of 2009, written 22 books in the areas of preaching, poetry, hymnody, and worship. Many of his hymn texts are found in New Hymns for the Lectionary (Oxford, 1992), and God, You Made All Things for Singing (Oxford, 2009).
Laura de Jong
Texts by Thomas H. Troeger (97) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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Christ is made the sure foundation | Thomas H. Troeger (Adapter (st. 3)) | English | 1 |
Crown Him with many crowns | Thomas H. Troeger (Adapter) | English | 1 |
Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! Even though it be a cross | Thomas H. Troeger (Adapter) | English | 1 |
Savior, Thy dying love Thou gavest me | Thomas H. Troeger (Adapter) | English | 1 |
The hidden stream that feeds | Thomas H. Troeger (1945-) (Author) | 1 | |
[A Star Not Mapped on Human Charts] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
All people that on earth do dwell | Thomas H. Troeger (Adapter) | English | 2 |
All things of dust to dust return | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
As new parents in the night | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | 2 | |
[Before the Temple's Great Stone Sill] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[Beyond the Press and Pull of Crowds] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Come singing, come singing | Thomas H. Troeger (Translator) | English | 2 |
[Crown As Your King] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Each breath is borrowed air | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[Far from the Markets of Rich Meat and Wine] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[Far More Than Passion's Passing Flame] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
For God risk ev'rything! | Thomas H. Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 2 |
For remembered music sounding | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[Forever in the Heart There Springs] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[From Pharaoh to King Cyrus] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[Gangling Desert Birds Will Sing] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Holy and good is the gift of desire | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | 2 | |
If all you want, Lord, is my heart | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | 2 | |
Learn from all the songs of earth | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Let all who pray the prayer Christ taught | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Let wonder be reborn | Thomas H. Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 2 |
[Listen to the Cloud that Brightens] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Look who gathers at Christ's table! | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | 2 | |
Make our church one joyful choir | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[Make Your Prayer and Music One] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[Neither Desert Wind Nor Sun] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[No Iron Spike, No Granite Weight] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[Praise to the Spinner Who Twisted and Twirled] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[Seek for the Kingdom with All Your Powers!] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Set free, set free by God's grace (Kwa neema na pendo) | Thomas Troeger (Translator) | English, Swahili | 2 |
Sing to God as sings the ocean | Thomas H. Troeger, 1945- (Author) | English | 2 |
[Soundless were the Tossing Trees] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[Startled By a Holy Humming] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[Suddenly God's Sovereign Wind] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[The Branch that Bends with Clustered Fruit] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
The first day of creation | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[The Leper's Soul Was No Less Scarred] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[The Love That Lifted Lyric Praise] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[The Sails Were Spilling Wind] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[The Scantest Touch of Grace Can Heal] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[The Sheep Stood Stunned in Sudden Light] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
The wind that stirs the sea to sing | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[Though Every Sun Shall Spend Its Fire] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[To Those Who Knotted Nets of Twine] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[Unless This Day Be Holy] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
We, like Peter, Christ, protest | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Welcome, Welcome! The Door Is Open | Thomas Troeger (Author) | 2 | |
What fabled names from Judah's past | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[When Heaven's Voice Was Still] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Why stare at heavens' distant blue | Thomas H. Troeger (Adapter) | English | 2 |
[Wild the Man and Wild the Place] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
With glad, exuberant carolings | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
A cheering, chanting, dizzy crowd | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
A single unmatched stone | Thomas H. Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 3 |
Above the moon earth rises | Thomas H. Troeger (b. 1945) (Author) | English | 3 |
All people that on earth do dwell, Sing out your faith with cheerful voice | Thomas H. Troeger (Adapter) | English | 3 |
As servants working an estate | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
Before the fruit is ripened by the sun | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
God folds the mountains out of rock | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
How buoyant and bold the stride of Christ's friends | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
How long, O God, how long? The ancient cry is ours | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
How many times we start again | Thomas H. Troeger, 1945- (Author) | English | 3 |
[If Christ Is Charged with Madness] | Thomas H. Troeger, b. 1945 (Author (attributed to)) | English | 3 |
Let the truth shine in our speaking | Thomas H. Troeger, 1945- (Author) | English | 3 |
Let us with a gladsome mind (Milton) | Thomas H. Troeger (Adapter) | English | 3 |
Seek not in distant, ancient hills | Thomas H. Troeger (1945-) (Author) | English | 3 |
The moon with borrowed light | Thomas H. Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 3 |
[The Word of God Was from the Start] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
Too splendid for speech but ripe for a song | Thomas Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 3 |
[We Have the Strength to Lift and Bear] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
We need each other’s voice to sing | Thomas H. Troeger, 1945- (Author) | English | 3 |
We read the cross so many ways | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
A spendthrift lover is the Lord | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 4 |
Too often, God, your name is used | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 4 |
Water, River, Spirit, Grace | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 4 |
God marked a line and told the sea | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 5 |
Through our fragmentary prayers | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 5 |
What king would wade through murky streams | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 5 |
Our Savior's infant cries were heard | Thomas H. Troeger (b. 1945) (Author) | English | 6 |
God weeps with us who weep and mourn | Thomas H. Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 7 |
Kneeling in the garden grass | Thomas H. Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 7 |
Praise the source of faith and learning | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 7 |
Swiftly pass the clouds of glory | Thomas H. Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 8 |
As a chalice cast of gold | Thomas H. Troeger, 1945- (Author) | English | 9 |
Source and Sovereign, Rock and Cloud | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 9 |
The hands that first held Mary's child | Thomas H. Troeger, 1945- (Author) | English | 9 |
View the present through the promise | Thomas H. Troeger (b. 1945) (Author) | English | 9 |
These things did Thomas count as real | Thomas Henry Troeger, 1945- (Author) | English | 10 |
God made from one blood all the families of earth | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 12 |
O praise the gracious power | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 13 |
Silence, frenzied, unclean spirit | Thomas Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 14 |
Wind who makes all winds that blow | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English, Spanish | 18 |