Borrowed Light

ISBN-13: 9780193859425 / Angielski / Nuty / 1994 / 264 str.

Thomas H. Troeger

Opis

This book includes all the texts from Troeger's prior collaborations and other prayers and poems which he has written. There are 134 texts (poems, prayers, etc.) in all, grouped by images and patterns of association: Borrowed Light, Hidden Water, Wind and Flame, Melody Alone, A Spendthrift Lover, A Single Unmatched Stone, Fragmentary Prayers, and Disturbance of the Solid Ground. Endnotes and indices according to meter, theme and image, scripture, and first lines will aid clergy, church musicians, liturgists, and composers. An afterword provides further material for the creative process by exploring the literary and theological understandings that shape the texts.

O autorze

Dr. Thomas H. Troeger is the Lantz Professor Emeritus at Yale Divinity School and Institute of Sacred Music. A graduate of Yale University and Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Dr. Troeger is ordained in the United Presbyterian Church. He is author of more than twenty books in the fields of preaching, poetry, hymnody, and worship and a frequent contributor to journals dedicated to these topics. He is also a professional flautist and a poet, whose work appears in the hymnals of most denominations. In 2019 he was named a Fellow of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada.