{"id":39445,"date":"2013-08-08T01:48:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T01:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tennessean_presbyterians_decision_to_drop_song_from_hymnal_stirs_debate\/"},"modified":"2013-08-08T01:48:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T01:48:51","slug":"tennessean_presbyterians_decision_to_drop_song_from_hymnal_stirs_debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39445","title":{"rendered":"(Tennessean) Presbyterians&#39; decision to drop song from hymnal stirs debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of a beloved contemporary Christian hymn won\u2019t get any satisfaction in a new church hymnal.<\/p>\n<p>The committee putting together a new hymnal for the Presbyterian Church (USA) dropped the popular hymn \u201cIn Christ Alone\u201d\u009d because the song\u2019s authors refused to change a phrase about the wrath of God.<\/p>\n<p>The original lyrics say that \u201con that cross, as Jesus died, the wrath of God was satisfied.\u201d\u009d The Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song wanted to substitute the words, \u201cthe love of God was magnified.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The song\u2019s authors, Stuart Townend and Nashville resident Keith Getty, objected. So the committee voted to drop the song.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/article\/20130804\/NEWS06\/308050009\/Presbyterians-decision-drop-song-from-hymnal-stirs-debate\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of a beloved contemporary Christian hymn won\u2019t get any satisfaction in a new church hymnal. The committee putting together a new hymnal for the Presbyterian Church (USA) dropped the popular hymn \u201cIn Christ Alone\u201d\u009d because the song\u2019s authors refused<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39445\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,42,183,154,184,417,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-presbyterian","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}