Chapter II: 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 Wuerttemberg 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