A Glad Obedience: Why and What We Sing

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The Christian practice of hymn singing, says renowned biblical scholar

Walter Brueggemann, is a countercultural act. It marks the Christian community as

different from an unforgiving and often ungrateful culture. It is also, he adds, an

absurd enterprise in the midst of the hyper-busy, market-driven society

that surrounds us. In this helpful and engaging volume, Brueggemann discusses both

why we sing and what we sing. The first part of the book examines the Psalms and

what they can teach us about the reasons that corporate song is a part of the

Christian tradition. The second part looks at fifteen popular hymns, including

classic and contemporary ones such as Blest Be the Ties That

Binds, God’s Eye Is on the Sparrow, Once

to Every Man and Nation, Someone Asked the

Question, and We Are Marching in the Light of God,

and the reasons why they have caught our

imagination.

To know why we

sing, Brueggemann writes, may bring us to a deeper delight in

our singing and a strengthened resolve to sing without calculation before the God

who is enthroned on the praises of Israel (Ps.

22:3).