Isaac Watts
Isaac Watts was an English hymn writer and theologian of the early 18th century, often called the "Father of English Hymnody." He transformed Protestant worship by writing hymns that expressed personal faith rather than simply paraphrasing scripture.
His works include "Joy to the World" and "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross." Watts also wrote influential books on logic and education.
- hymnReligious song of praise
- CalvinismPredestinarian Protestant theology
- psalmSacred scriptural song
- PuritanismProtestant reform movement
- nonconformistRejects prevailing social standards
catechism · didacticism · pedagogy · meter and rhyme · children · children's hymns · Sunday school · moral instruction · congregational singing · dissenters · doxology · divine grace · Protestant Reformation · literary legacy · liturgy · cultural influence · sermon · Protestant
- 1700s WritersAlexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Voltaire, Samuel Richardson, Daniel Defoe
- Sacred MusiciansBach, Handel, organists, choir directors, choirmasters
- Hymn WritersFanny Crosby, Martin Luther, Bernard of Clairvaux
- Hymnodyhymnals, hymnbooks, hymn books, psalmody, hymnody
- Sacred PoetsRumi, Hafiz, John of the Cross, Hildegard of Bingen, Hildegard
- sacred musichymns, hymn, anthem, anthems, gospel
Isaac WattsThomas Cranmer
Isaac WattsLord Byron
Romantic period English poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley · Alexander Pope · Robert Burns · Voltaire · Christopher Marlowe