The Unfractured Faith of Erik Routley

From Brighton to Princeton

Nancy L. Graham

• Publisher: Fortress Academic
• Year: 2023
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798765187555
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Music

Erik Routley, Reformed churchman, musician, and theologian is arguably the most significant hymnologist of the twentieth century. In The Unfractured Faith of Erik Routley: From Brighton to Princeton, Nancy L. Graham unveils Routley's extraordinary life through his own eyes. Anecdotes from nearly forty years of correspondence with his many colleagues and friends enliven the foundations of Routley's faith, scholarship, and pastoral relationships until his untimely death in 1982. Congregation members from his churches in Edinburgh and Newcastle, former students, fellow clergy, and editorial partners recall Routley's energy, wit, and straightforward observations, as well as the riveting effect of his sermons and lectures. Routley's extensive works explore the prophetic and timeless assertion that musicians and preachers are synergistic artists in service to the Gospel. An important part of this book is the detailed description of the Dunblane Music Consultations that lit the hymn explosion of the 1960s. The effects of these remarkable collaborations rippled through the next generation of writers and composers and are the unsung groundwork for the current approach to hymn writing.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• Abbreviations
• Author’s Notes
• Beginnings
• Magdalen and Mansfield, 1936–1943
• Wednesbury and Dartford, 1943–1948
• Mansfield College, 1948–1959
• Edinburgh, 1959–1967
• Newcastle upon Tyne, 1967–1974
• Princeton, 1975–1982
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Book Dedications
• “The Books That Shaped My Life”
• Statement from Sir Ronald Johnson
• Letter to Friends
• Letter to John Wilson about Ecumenical Praise
• Prophetic Article from the Church Times
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author