Hymnology Definition

Hymnology Sentence Examples

• Hebrew religious poetry was revived for synagogue hymnology, and, partly in imitation of Arabian models, a secular Hebrew poetry was developed in metre and rhyme.

• There is perpetual action and reaction between picture and myth; and a legislator desiring to purify and raise his countrymen's religion must devote no less attention to their plastic art than to their hymnology.

• He was the founder of what has been termed the "science of Judaism," the critical investigation of Jewish literature, hymnology and ritual.

• One of his hymns, "O love that will not let me go," has passed into the popular hymnology of the Christian Church.

• Bonar was a prolific writer of religious literature, and edited several journals, including the Christian Treasury, the Presbyterian Review and the Quarterly Journal of Prophecy; but his best work was done in hymnology, and he published three series of Hymns of Faith and Hope between 1857 and 1866 (new ed., 1886).