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Carol M. Bechtel

b. 1959 Person Name: Carol Bechtel Author of "Wisdom Calls" in Lift Up Your Hearts Carol Bechtel has served as professor of Old Testament at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, since 1994. She is a graduate of Hope College and Western Theological Seminary, and she received her Ph.D. in Old Testament from Yale University. Bechtel preaches and teaches widely and is the author of several books, including Esther: A Commentary for Teaching and Preaching (Interpretation, WJK, 2002). She is a General Synod Professor of Theology in the Reformed Church in America and has served as president of the RCA’s General Synod (1998/1999) and as moderator of its General Synod Council (1999/2000). She lives in Holland, Michigan, with her husband, Tom Mullens, where they enjoy a growing group of children and grandchildren. Her interests include singing, cooking, gardening, and the Celtic harp. She served on the editorial committee for Psalms for All Seasons (2012) and for Lift Up Your Hearts (2013). Emily Brink

Carl P. Daw Jr.

b. 1944 Translator of "From the Parent’s Heart, the Firstborn (Corde natus ex parentis)" in Voices Together Carl P. Daw, Jr. (b. Louisville, KY, 1944) is the son of a Baptist minister. He holds a PhD degree in English (University of Virginia) and taught English from 1970-1979 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. As an Episcopal priest (MDiv, 1981, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennesee) he served several congregations in Virginia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. From 1996-2009 he served as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Carl Daw began to write hymns as a consultant member of the Text committee for The Hymnal 1982, and his many texts often appeared first in several small collections, including A Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year (1990); To Sing God’s Praise (1992), New Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1996), Gathered for Worship (2006). Other publications include A Hymntune Psalter (2 volumes, 1988-1989) and Breaking the Word: Essays on the Liturgical Dimensions of Preaching (1994, for which he served as editor and contributed two essays. In 2002 a collection of 25 of his hymns in Japanese was published by the United Church of Christ in Japan. He wrote Glory to God: A Companion (2016) for the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Emily Brink

Felipe Blycker-J

Person Name: F. B. J. Adapter of "DIVINUM MISTERIUM" in Celebremos Su Gloria Spanish name used by Phillip W. Blycker. See also

Paul W. Wohlgemuth

Person Name: Paul Wohlgemuth Arranger of "[Of the Father's love begotten]" in Sing Joyfully Ass’t chairman, Dept. of Music, Oral Roberts Univ., Tulsa, Okla LOC Name Authority File

Paul Bunjes

1914 - 1998 Person Name: Paul G. Bunjes Arranger of "DIVINUM MYSTERIUM" in Christian Worship (1993) Paul G. Bunjes (b. September 27, 1914; d. June 27, 1998) was an organist, author, and organ designer. He wrote The Praetorius Organ (four volumes), numerous articles for periodicals, and was an accomplished composer and arranger. He was a major contributor to the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978) and Lutheran Worship (1982). Bunjes was Professor of Music at Concordia University for many years. Laura de Jong

David Mowbray

b. 1938 Author of "We Believe in God Almighty" in Renew! Songs and Hymns for Blended Worship David Mowbray (b. 1938) was born in Wallington, Surrey, England. He attended Dulwich College, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge where he read English. He gained an MA at Trinity in Bristol and a BD at London (External). Ordained in the Church of England, he was a curate at St. Giles in Northampton and at St. Mary's in Walford. Appointed Vicar of Broxborne, Herts in 1970 in 1984, he became Vicar of All Saints, Hertfordshire. In 1991 he became Vicar of St. Matthew's Darley Abbey, Derby, where he serves to this day. He has been writing hymns since 1977 and most of his texts are represented by Jubilate Hymns. Three of his hymn texts have been included in Hope's new hymnal Worship & Rejoice (2001). --www.hopepublishing.com

Theodoricus Petrus

Adapter of "CORDE NATUS (DIVINYM MYSTERIUM)" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

R. F. Davis

1866 - 1937 Translator (st. 2) of "Of the Father's Love Begotten (Of Eternal Love Begotten)" in Chalice Hymnal Davis, Robert Furley, M.A., was born Jan. 22, 1866, at Nottingham, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A. 1888, M.A. 1896). He is now (1906) senior classical master at Campbell College, Belfast, Ireland. He is the author of seven translations in The Hymns of Prudentius, Translated by B. Martin Pope and R. F. Davis, 1905, one of which is in The English Hymnal, 1906, No. 613. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Alan J. Hommerding

Author of "Jesus Christ, the Long-Awaited" in One in Faith

Henry Warburton Hawkes

1843 - 1917 Person Name: Henry W. Hawkes, 1843-1917 Author of "Thank we now the Lord of heaven" in The Beacon Song and Service book Hawkes, Henry Warburton, born at Kendal, 1843, for sixteen years minister of the North End Mission, Liverpool, from 1891 to 1900 of the Bootle Free Church, since 1906 of West Kirby Free Church. Editor of Hymns of Help and Songs of Praise, 1882; and Hymns and Sacred Songs for Church and Home. 1891, Reprinted and enlarged, 1898. The edition of 1898 has about 100 of his own hymns and adaptations for popular tunes. 1. Amid the din of earthly strife. Vision of the Christ. 2. Father, Thy dear name we own. Litany. 3. Heavenward lift your banners. Christian Warfare. 4. Peace, perfect peace, the gift of God within. Inward Peace. 5. Thank we now the Lord of heaven. Christmas. 6. Thou knowest, Lord! Thou know'st my life's deep story. The Searcher of Hearts. No. 3 published 1882; 1, 2, 4, 5 published 1891; 6 published 1898. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)