Isaac Watts ( 17 July 1674 - 25 November 1748 ) was an English theologian, logician, and a prolific and popular hymnwriter. Known as the "Father of English Hymnody" he is credited with some 750 hymns , many of which remain in active use today. Sourced...
Isaac Watts was a scion of seventeenth-century Independent Dissent, a religious culture distinguished by its attention to local congregational authority, the education of preachers and people, and the cultivation of individual piety. The politics,...
Isaac Watts (July 17, 1674 – November 25, 1748) is recognised as the "Father of English Hymnody", as he was the first prolific and popular English hymnwriter, credited with some 750 hymns. Many of his hymns remain in active use today and have been...
It is only in the wildest dreams of your paper and other apologists for failed liberal agendas that "twin controversies . . . threatened to undercut" Rep. J. C. Watts's rising star {news story, Feb. 5}. After hearing Watts's passionate and moving speech...
WE KEEP defending the independent counsel law on grounds that the good it does outweighs the harm, and then along comes another independent counsel to suggest through what appears to be an abuse of prosecutorial power that we're wrong. The latest example turned up...
In the following essays, Davis provides an analysis of Watts's prose and its orientation, and argues that Watts's poetry deserves a place in English literary history not only because of its intrinsic worth, but also “because it is the best lyrical expression of eighteenth century evangelicalism.”
