Colloque des 24 et 25 novembre 2006

L'héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaines
des XVIIe et XVIIe siècles

Abstract

Vendredi 24 novembre
[Salle 216 (2ème étage) Paris I - 12 place du Panthéon]

Après-midi : Présidente : Professeur Françoise Deconinck-Brossard, université de Paris X

- 15 heures 45 : Professor J.R. Watson, guest speaker, University of Durham
The transmission of the Old and New Testaments
in the 18th- century hymn, with special reference to Charles Wesley

At the beginning of the 18th century, the metrical psalms were dominant as the means of transmission of the Bible, either in the 'Old Version' of Sternhold and Hopkins (1562) or in the 'New Version' of Tate and Brady. Translations of the psalms continued, notably those of Watts (1719) and Blackmore (1721), but the most interesting developments in the transmission of Biblical sources are three: (1) the paraphrasing of other parts of the Bible, (2) the increasing use of hymn singing in worship to supplement preaching, and (3) the use of hymns to explore individual problems of belief and current philosophical and theological questions.

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