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To subscribe to these hymnal indexes, you must have a biblically grounded knowledge of scripture. If you don’t have that, you’ll be wasting your time. Presby Hymnal is not meant to be a dictionary, only an index of hymns. Any hymn that does not match these criteria, is not indexed in any of the hymnal databases.
I am interested in using the Presby Hymnal. can I receive my copy in print or only in digital form?
When we first approached Eddington Press about reprinting The Presbyterian Hymnal, we told them we wanted all the indexes to be printed in a PDF. Eddington replied that they would consider it, as long as we understood that they could not make the Indexes available for sale separately. As with all the other indexes, we could have chosen not to have the hymnal indexes printed, but that would have been a mistake. By having them printed, we are letting others have access to a valuable resource. There are PDF versions of the indexes that are available for purchase.
If you do not have a print edition of the Presbyterian Hymnal and would like one, you can order it from Eddington Press, by calling the Office of Hymnology at (866) 471-4278 or by visiting:
And we will also provide an updated resource, the Presbyterian Hymnal in the 21st Century, which is currently under development. It will include all of the new hymns that have been approved since the time of The Presbyterian Hymnal, as well as most of the “new” hymns of the last 25 years. We are expecting to have the new Hymnal available in 2015.
when will you release a version of the presbyterian hymnal that includes the titles of the “new” hymns approved since the 1990 edition?
In our first two hymnal editions, we were unable to get all of the songs that we had in our catalog to the indexes, simply because there were so many. We had to choose those that seemed like they would have a good chance of being used at our churches, but, as new songs were added, it became increasingly difficult to find time to add them. We also made it clear that we would not necessarily include the titles of all new songs. This, too, made ac619d1d87
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