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About Erik Routley
Erik Reginald Routley was an English Congregational churchman, theologian and musician and arguably the most significant hymnologist of the 20th century. His nearly 40 books on theological thought and music of the Christian church are renowned.
Routley attended Magdalen College, Oxford (BA 1936) and studied at Mansfield College (where he was tutor and lecturer in church history in 1948).
After ordination, he became pastor of the Dartford Congregational Church, and received his Bachelor of Divinity the next year, and his doctorate from Oxford in 1952. In 1970, he was elected president of the Congregational Church of England and Wales.
Routley moved to Princeton, New Jersey, in 1975, and became a visiting professor and director of music at Princeton Theological Seminary, and Professor of Church Music at Westminster Choir College.