Short Name: | Thomas H. Troeger |
Full Name: | Troeger, Thomas H., 1945-2022 |
Birth Year: | 1945 |
Death Year: | 2022 |
Thomas Troeger (1945-2022), professor of Christian communication at Yale Divinity school, was a well known preacher, poet, and musician. He was a fellow of Silliman College, held a B.A. from Yale University; B.D. Colgate Rochester Divinity School; S.T. D. Dickinson College, and was awarded an honorary D.D. from Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1970 and the Episcopal Church in 1999, and remained dually aligned with both traditions. Troerger led conferences and lectures in worship and preaching throughout North America, as well as in Denmark, Holland, Australia, Japan, and Africa. He served as national chaplain to the American Guild of Organists, and for at least three years he hosted the Season of Worship broadcast for Cokesbury. He was president of the Academy of Homiletics as well as Societas Homiletica. He had, as of 2009, written 22 books in the areas of preaching, poetry, hymnody, and worship. Many of his hymn texts are found in New Hymns for the Lectionary (Oxford, 1992), and God, You Made All Things for Singing (Oxford, 2009).
Laura de Jong
Texts by Thomas H. Troeger (97) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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With glad, exuberant carolings | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Wind who makes all winds that blow | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English, Spanish | 18 |
[Wild the Man and Wild the Place] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Why stare at heavens' distant blue | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[When Heaven's Voice Was Still] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
What king would wade through murky streams | Thomas H. Troeger, 1945- (Author) | English | 5 |
What fabled names from Judah's past | Thomas H. Troeger (Alterer) | English | 2 |
Welcome, Welcome! The Door Is Open | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | 2 | |
We read the cross so many ways | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
We need each other’s voice to sing | Thomas H. Troeger (b. 1945) (Author) | English | 3 |
We, like Peter, Christ, protest | Thomas H. Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 2 |
[We Have the Strength to Lift and Bear] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
Water, River, Spirit, Grace | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 4 |
All people that on earth do dwell | Thomas H. Troeger (Adapter) | English | 2 |
View the present through the promise | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 9 |
[Unless This Day Be Holy] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Too splendid for speech but ripe for a song | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
Too often, God, your name is used | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 4 |
[To Those Who Knotted Nets of Twine] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Through our fragmentary prayers | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 5 |
[Though Every Sun Shall Spend Its Fire] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
These things did Thomas count as real | Thomas H. Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 10 |
[The Word of God Was from the Start] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
The wind that stirs the sea to sing | Thomas H. Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 2 |
[The Sheep Stood Stunned in Sudden Light] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[The Scantest Touch of Grace Can Heal] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[The Sails Were Spilling Wind] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
The moon with borrowed light | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
[The Love That Lifted Lyric Praise] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[The Leper's Soul Was No Less Scarred] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
The hidden stream that feeds | Thomas H. Troeger (1945-) (Author) | 1 | |
The hands that first held Mary's child | Thomas H. Troeger, 1945- (Author) | English | 9 |
The first day of creation | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[The Branch that Bends with Clustered Fruit] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Swiftly pass the clouds of glory | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 8 |
[Suddenly God's Sovereign Wind] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[Startled By a Holy Humming] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Source and Sovereign, Rock and Cloud | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 9 |
[Soundless were the Tossing Trees] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Sing to God as sings the ocean | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Silence, frenzied, unclean spirit | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 14 |
Set free, set free by God's grace (Kwa neema na pendo) | Thomas Troeger (Translator) | English, Swahili | 2 |
Seek not in distant, ancient hills | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
[Seek for the Kingdom with All Your Powers!] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Savior, Thy dying love Thou gavest me | Thomas H. Troeger (Adapter) | English | 1 |
[Praise to the Spinner Who Twisted and Twirled] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Praise the source of faith and learning | Thomas H. Troeger, 1945- (Author) | English | 7 |
Our Savior's infant cries were heard | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 6 |
O praise the gracious power | Thomas H. Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 13 |
[No Iron Spike, No Granite Weight] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[Neither Desert Wind Nor Sun] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! Even though it be a cross | Thomas H. Troeger (Adapter) | English | 1 |
[Make Your Prayer and Music One] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Make our church one joyful choir | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Look who gathers at Christ's table! | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | 2 | |
[Listen to the Cloud that Brightens] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Let wonder be reborn | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Let us with a gladsome mind (Milton) | Thomas H. Troeger (Adapter) | English | 3 |
Let the truth shine in our speaking | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
Let all who pray the prayer Christ taught | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Learn from all the songs of earth | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Kneeling in the garden grass | Thomas Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 7 |
[If Christ Is Charged with Madness] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
If all you want, Lord, is my heart | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | 2 | |
How many times we start again | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
How long, O God, how long? The ancient cry is ours | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
How buoyant and bold the stride of Christ's friends | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
Holy and good is the gift of desire | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | 2 | |
God weeps with us who weep and mourn | Thomas H. Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 7 |
God marked a line and told the sea | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 5 |
God made from one blood all the families of earth | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 12 |
God folds the mountains out of rock | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
[Gangling Desert Birds Will Sing] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[From Pharaoh to King Cyrus] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[Forever in the Heart There Springs] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
For remembered music sounding | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
For God risk ev'rything! | Thomas H. Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 2 |
[Far More Than Passion's Passing Flame] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[Far from the Markets of Rich Meat and Wine] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Each breath is borrowed air | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Crown Him with many crowns | Thomas H. Troeger (Adapter) | English | 1 |
[Crown As Your King] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Come singing, come singing | Thomas H. Troeger (Translator) | English | 2 |
Christ is made the sure foundation | Thomas H. Troeger (Adapter (st. 3)) | English | 1 |
[Beyond the Press and Pull of Crowds] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
[Before the Temple's Great Stone Sill] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
Before the fruit is ripened by the sun | Thomas H. Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 3 |
As servants working an estate | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |
As new parents in the night | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | 2 | |
As a chalice cast of gold | Thomas Henry Troeger, 1945- (Author) | English | 9 |
All things of dust to dust return | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
All people that on earth do dwell, Sing out your faith with cheerful voice | Thomas H. Troeger (Adapter) | English | 3 |
Above the moon earth rises | Thomas H. Troeger (b. 1945) (Author) | English | 3 |
[A Star Not Mapped on Human Charts] | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 2 |
A spendthrift lover is the Lord | Thomas Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 4 |
A single unmatched stone | Thomas H. Troeger, b. 1945 (Author) | English | 3 |
A cheering, chanting, dizzy crowd | Thomas H. Troeger (Author) | English | 3 |