Person Results

Switch back to the old search page.Advanced Search

Showing 41 - 50 of 87Results Per Page: 10 20 50

Graham Maule

1958 - 2019 Person Name: Graham Maule (b. 1958) Meter: 12.11.12.11 Author of "Heaven shall not wait" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

b. 1930 Meter: 12.11.12.11 Versifier of "Give Glory to God, All You Heavenly Creatures" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Calvin Seerveld (b. 1930) was professor of aesthetics at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto from 1972 until he retired in 1995. Educated at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan; the University of Michigan; and the Free University of Amsterdam (Ph.D.), he also studied at Basel University in Switzerland, the University of Rome, and the University of Heidelberg. Seerveld began his career by teaching at Bellhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi (1958-1959), and at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois (1959-1972). A fine Christian scholar, fluent in various biblical and modern languages, he is published widely in aesthetics, biblical studies, and philosophy. His books include Take Hold of God and Pull (1966), The Greatest Song: In Critique of Solomon (1967), For God's Sake, Run with Joy (1972), Rainbows for the Fallen World: Aesthetic Life and Artistic Task (1980), and On Being Human (1988). He credits the Dutch musician Ina Lohr for influencing his compositions of hymn tunes. Most of his Bible versifications and hymns were written for the Psalter Hymnal (1987), on whose revision committee he ably served. Bert Polman

Susan Palo Cherwien

1953 - 2021 Person Name: Suan Palo Cherwien Meter: 12.11.12.11 Author of "Beloved, God’s Chosen" in Voices Together

Ethelbert W. Bullinger

1837 - 1913 Person Name: Ethelbert William Bullinger, 1837-1913 Meter: 12.11.12.11 Composer of "ETHELBERT" in The Cyber Hymnal Ethelbert William Bullinger DD United Kingdom 1837-1913. Born in Canterbury, he was an Anglican clergyman, Biblical scholar, and ultradispensationalist theologian and writer. Educated at King's College, London, he became a good organist, singer, and composer. He married Emma Dobson, 13 years his senior, and they had two sons. In 1861 he began as Associate Curate to the parish of St. Mary Magdelene, Bermondsey, and was ordained as priest in the Church of England in 1862. He served as parish curate in Tittleshall until 1866, then Notting Hill until 1869, them Leytonstone to 1870, and finally Walthamstow, until becoming Vicar of the new parish of St. Stephen's in 1874. He resigned his vicarage in 1888. In 1867 he was clerical secretary of the Trinitarian Bible Society, which he held (except for illnesses) until his death. The Society completed and published a Hebrew version of the New Testament, the Tanakh (introduction to the Hebrew Bible), formation of the Brittany evangelical Mission Society under Pasteur LeCoat and translation of the Bible into Breton, also producing the first ever Protestant Portuguese reference Bible. It also distributed Spanish Bibles in Spain after the 1868 Spanish Revolution. Bullinger, a practiced musician, collected and harmonized untranscribed hymns on his visits to Tremel, Brittany. He wrote many articles, edited a monthly journal “Things to come”. He wrote 4 Biblical works (16 works). John Perry

José Joaquín de Mora

1783 - 1864 Person Name: José M. de Mora Meter: 12.11.12.11 Translator of "Venid, nuestras voces alegres unamos" in Culto Cristiano

Noel Tredinnick

b. 1949 Person Name: Noël Tredinnick (born 1949) Meter: 12.11.12.11 Arranger of "STREETS OF LAREDO" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Composer

Ferris Tozer

1857 - 1944 Meter: 12.11.12.11 Composer of "HALDON" Tozer, John Ferris; b. 1857, Exeter; English composer and organist

Edward Husband

1843 - 1908 Meter: 12.11.12.11 Composer of "[O come to the merciful Savior Who calls you] (Husband)" Husband, Edward was educated at St. Aidan's College, Birkenhead. Taking Holy Orders in 1866, he was successively Curate of Atherstone and Folkestone; and in 1878 Vicar of St. Michael and All Angels, Folkestone. In 1874 Mr. Husband published The Mission Hymnal, in which appeared his hymns as follows:— 1. Alas! poor world, I loved thee long. Rest in Jesus. 2. And dost Thou ask me, dearest Lord. Christ's Invitation, " Follow Me." 3. I must have Jesus only. Jesus only desired 4. Sweet Blood, dear ransom of our souls. The Blood of Jesus. These hymns are very simple, earnest, and impassioned: and bear a great resemblance to Facer's compositions. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Epigmenio Velasco

1880 - 1940 Person Name: Epigmenio Velasco, 1880-1940 Meter: 12.11.12.11 Composer of "COYOACÁN" in Culto Cristiano Epigmenio Velasco Urda was a choir director, pastor, poet, composer and journalist from Mexico City. Dianne Shapiro from Celebremos su Gloria (Colombia/Illinois: Libros Alianza/Celebration), 1992

Robert Hawkey Moreton

1844 - 1917 Person Name: Robert Hawkey Moreton (1844-1917) Meter: 12.11.12.11 Translator of "Ó vós que passais pela cruz do Calvário" in Mil Vozes para Celebrar Robert Hawkey Moreton was born in Argentina (1844-1917) and was instrumental in the founding of the Methodist Church (Mirante Chapel) in Oporto, Portugal.