s 9:3 (1964-65) no. 1021. It should be emphasized that Geyser's interpretation of the hymn (whether or not it be regarded as 'heretical') is not substantiated by Martin's exegesis. 41 At the same time, I should not want to understand μορφή purely in terms of role or outward form. Incidentally, Martin does not seem to have faced up fully to the arguments brought forward by Käsemann for understan...

Hymns played a role in envoicing the politics of protest England long before their integration established Church – and do so to this day. Yet it was nineteenth-century radical movements that embraced hymn as many ways ideal musical form. From bloody field Peterloo secularising South Place Society, from mass meetings Chartists top-down productions Fabian socialists, century resounded with incre...