Mahakasih Yang Ilahi
Mahakasih Yang Ilahi atau Love Divine, All Loves Excelling adalah sebuah kidung Kristen karya Charles Wesley.[1] Secara garis besar, kidung tersebut ditemukan dalam nyaris seluruh kumpulan kidung umum pada masa lampau, tak hanya kitab-kitab kidung Methodis dan Anglikan dan kumpulan-kumpulan kidung komersial dan ekumenikal, namun juga kidung-kidung yang diterbitkan oleh tradisi-tradisi Reformed, Presbiterian, Gereja Baptis, Brethren, Adventis Hari Ketujuh, Lutheran, Kongregasionalis, Pentakosta, dan Katolik Roma.[2][3]
| Mahakasih Yang Ilahi | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Genre | Kidung |
| Ditulis | 1747 |
| Teks | Charles Wesley |
| Berdasarkan | 1 Yohanes 4:16 |
| Meter | 8.7.8.7 D |
| Melodi | "Beecher" karya John Zundel, "Hyfrydol", "Blaenwern" karya William Penfro Rowlands |
Referensi
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sunting- ^ This is the rubric for the hymn in the 1935 (U.S.) Methodist hymn book.
- ^ http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/FHOP/45
- ^ Based on a collation of 80 selected hymn books from 1747 to 2007.
Sumber
sunting- [1] Benson, Louis F. The English hymn : its Development and Use in Worship. N.Y. : Charles Doran, 1915.
- Bradley, Ian. The Book of Hymns. Testament Books, 1989. (ISBN 0-517-16241-5)
- Frost, Maurice. Historical Companion to Hymns Ancient and Modern. [London]: William Clowes, 1962.
- Hymnary.org, site of the Dictionary of North American Hymnology.
- [2] Julian, John. A Dictionary of Hymnology setting forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of all Ages and Nations .... New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892.
- Watson, J. R. An Annotated Anthology of Hymns. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.