Gracia Grindal (GGrindal@luthersem.edu) is professor of rhetoric at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota. She has written many hymns, some of which are found in her published collection ,em>We Are One in Christ, and is author of Lessons in Hymnwriting (both available from The Hymn Society, www.thehymnsociety.org).
Last Updated: February 28, 2017
Martin Luther’s Reformation took wings when he realized the importance of hymns that would preach Lutheran doctrine to the people in their language. His hymns swept Northern Europe—and the countries that would become Lutheran: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden—almost as fast as they could be translated into the vernacular language by the respective reformers of each country, many of whom were students of Luther in Wittenberg.
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