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Why Are Nations Raging

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Author: Fred R. Anderson

FRED R. ANDERSON is pastor emeritus of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, a liturgical theologian, and a recognized hymn writer whose hymn and psalm texts appear in Protestant and Catholic hymnals around the world. —Singing God's Psalms (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016) His collections of psalm paraphrases include Singing Psalms of Joy and Praise (1986) and Singing God's Psalms (2016). Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Why are nations raging
Title: Why Are Nations Raging
Author: Fred R. Anderson (1986; alt.)
Meter: 7.7.7.7 D
Language: English
Copyright: © 1986 Fred R. Anderson; from "Singing Psalms of Joy and Praise"

Tune

SALZBURG (Hintze)

The tune SALZBURG, named after the Austrian city made famous by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was first published anonymously in the nineteenth edition of Praxis Pietatis Melica (1678); in that hymnbook's twenty-fourth edition (1690) the tune was attributed to Jakob Hintze (b. Bernau, Germany, 1622; d. B…

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ANIMA CHRISTI (English melody)


Timeline

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Christian Worship #2C

The Presbyterian Hymnal #159

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