Hymns of Truth and Light ‎#521

521. God in Great Love for Us

Text Information

• First Line: God in great love for us lent us this planet
• Title: God in Great Love for Us
• Author: Fred Pratt Green (1973)
• Meter: 11 10.11 10
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1998
• Topic: Stewardship: Care of the Earth
• Copyright: © 1973 The Hymn Society, admin. Hope Publishing Co.
• ONE LICENSE: 70177

Tune Information

• Name: STEWARDSHIP
• Composer: Valerie Ruddle (1979)
• Meter: 11 10.11 10
• Key: d minor or modal
• Copyright: © 1979 Stainer & Bell Ltd. and Methodist Church (UK), admin. Hope Publishing Co.

Text Information:

Fred Pratt Green, English Methodist minister and poet, is called the 'initiator of the modern hymn renaissance.' This text originally appeared in the Hymn Society of America's publication Sixteen Hymns on the Stewardship of the Environment in the early 1970's