Christianity is a "singing church" with biblical foundations and centuries of examples in Psalms and canticles, hymns, and gospel songs. Rorem brings history to life through engaging tales of the stories behind hymn texts. This volume is an ecumenical history of the music that has us "singing church history" each Sunday.

Paul Rorem is Benjamin B. Warfield Professor of (Medieval) Ecclesiastical History Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary and a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He has published extensively in the field of early and medieval Christian history. Rorem serves as editor of Lutheran Quarterly and the Lutheran Quarterly Books series at Fortress Press.