Minds and Hearts in Praise of God: Hymns and Essays in Church Music in Honor of Hugh T. Mcelrath - Softcover

More than two dozen friends, colleagues, and former students honor the legacy and life of Hugh T. McElrath, one of church music's most respected hymnologists and teachers, by contributing essays, hymns, hymn texts, and commentary to this celebratory volume. Over the course of his long and successful career, Dr. McElrath impacted hundreds of future church leaders and musicians in his fifty years at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville and enriched the lives of worshippers around the world with his own hymns. Minds and Hearts in Praise of God celebrates Dr. McElrath's dedication to God and music through teaching, local church ministry, and foreign missions. Contributors include Carl P. Daw, Jr.; Harry Eskew; Donald P. Hustad; Austin C. Lovelace; Milburn Price; Brian Wren; Carlton R. Young; and other international music luminaries. Includes ten hymn texts and tunes written in McElrath's honor.

J. Michael Raley presently teaches in the history department at Northeastern Illionois University in Chicago. He has served churches in Kentucky, Georgia, and Indiana as pastor and as director of music. His articles and reviews have appeared in Anuario Musical, The Southern Baptist Church Music Journal, and Journal of Southern Religion. Raley has been the recipient of research fellowships from the Newberry Library (Chicago), the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Frankfurt, Germany), and the Herzog August Bibliothek (Wolfenbüttel, Germany).Deborah Carlton Loftis is professor of church music at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, in Virginia. In that post, she has established a music concentraiton within the master of divinity degree program. Prior to joining the faculty at Richmond in 1999, she served as associate minister of music at Riverchase Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and was music librarian at the Birmingham Public Library. A member of The Hymy Society in the United States and Canada, she annually indexes its journal, The Hymn.