{"id":59719,"date":"2022-04-04T08:20:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T13:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=59719"},"modified":"2022-04-09T11:33:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T16:33:09","slug":"rip-thomas-h-troeger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/04\/rip-thomas-h-troeger\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Thomas H. Troeger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Pray Tell\u00a0<\/em> has received word that liturgical and musical leader Thomas Troeger passed away last night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas H. Troeger<\/strong> (b. 1945), was professor of Christian communication at Yale Divinity school and well known as a preacher, poet, and musician. He was a fellow of Silliman College, held a B.A. from Yale University; B.D. Colgate Rochester Divinity School; S.T. D. Dickinson College, and was awarded an honorary D.D. from Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1970 and the Episcopal Church in 1999, and remained dually aligned with both traditions. Troerger led conferences and lectures in worship and preaching throughout North America, as well as in Denmark, Holland, Australia, Japan, and Africa. He served as national chaplain to the American Guild of Organists. He is the former president of the Academy of Homiletics as well as Societas Homiletica. He wrote some 22 books in the areas of preaching, poetry, hymnody, and worship. Many of his hymn texts are found in <cite>New Hymns for the Lectionary<\/cite>\u00a0(Oxford, 1992), and\u00a0<cite>God, You Made All Things for Singing<\/cite> (Oxford, 2009), as well as in most every hymnal published in the U.S. in recent years.\u00a0\u00a0<em>[biography adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/hymnary.org\/person\/Troeger_TH\">Hymnary.org<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/hymnology.hymnsam.co.uk\/t\/thomas-troeger\"><em>Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology,<\/em><\/a> his best-known and widely-published hymns include As a chalice cast of gold; God made from one blood all the families of earth; O praise the gracious power; Praise the source of faith and learning; Silence! Frenzied unclean spirit; Source and Sovereign, Rock and Cloud; These things did Thomas count as real; View the present through the promise; <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">and <\/span>Wind who makes all winds that blow.<\/p>\n<p>Troeger was elected a Fellow of the\u00a0<a title=\"Hymn Society in the United States and Canada\" href=\"https:\/\/hymnology.hymnsam.co.uk\/h\/hymn-society-in-the-united-states-and-canada\">Hymn Society in the United States and Canada<\/a>* in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>May this servant of God rest in peace and rise in glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A liturgical and musical leader has passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":59724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[3116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-new-ws"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>RIP Thomas H. 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