Glory to God ‎#256

256. These Things Did Thomas Count as Real

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Text Information

• First Line: These things did Thomas count as real
• Title: These Things Did Thomas Count as Real
• Author: Thomas H. Troeger (1984)
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2013
• Scripture:
  John 20:19-31
  ;
  1 Corinthians 15:3-8
• Topic: Christian Year: Easter Vigil; Christian Year: Resurrection/Easter; Faith; Grace; Jesus Christ: Resurrection; Salvation; Christian Year: Easter
• Copyright: © 1986 Oxford University Press
• ONE LICENSE: 89904

Tune Information

• Name: KEDRON
• Composer (attributed to): Elkanah Kelsay Dare
• Meter: LM
• Key: c minor
• Source: harm. Pilsbury’s United States Harmony, 1799, alt.

Text Information:

This 20th-century text provides a helpful corrective to a long history of negative attitudes toward Thomas for failing to believe the other disciples’ report that Christ had risen. His fact-seeking “skeptic mind” sounds remarkably modern and makes him a more sympathetic figure.