THE CHURCH HYMN “CHRIST RECEIVETH SINFUL MEN”: ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE GERMAN ORIGINAL AND ITS ADAPTATION BY AMERICAN AND KOREAN HYMNALS

In the 19th century, German Protestant hymns were translated into English and have been sung in its language area. By evangelizing Korea, Western – including some church introduced. However, it is noticeable that content as well linguistic musical differences between Korean versions could occur translation process. This paper examines one particular hymn, namely “Christ Receiveth Sinful Men”, was included hymnals at end of century. hymn has an interesting history; text originally from Germany, whereby origin music United States. explores questions how combined changes took place their transmission. Methodologically, sources compared relevant time adaption. The intercultural relationships other countries would be interest not only to hymnological scholars, but also missiologists musicologists, musicians.