Neither Getty nor the Celebrating Grace publisher was available for comment. When it asked for permission to use the song, the committee learned that the song’s authors hadn’t approved the change.Ĭapitol CMG Publishing, which manages rights for “In Christ Alone,” said it is working with the hymnal’s publisher to fix the problem. “We had every reason to think that this was an authorized text because it appeared in a recent hymnal,” Bringle said. They assumed the songwriters already had agreed to the change. It was complicated by a foul-up with the rights for the song.Ĭommittee members had found a version of the hymn with the alternate text in the Celebrating Grace Hymnal, a Baptist hymnal published in 2010. The decision to drop the hymn wasn’t made lightly, said Mary Louise Bringle, a religion professor and hymnwriter who chaired the hymnal committee. Instead, the problem is the word “satisfied,” which the committee says refers to a specific view of theology that it rejects.ĭebate over “In Christ Alone” is a mix of church politics, the touchy subject of updating hymn lyrics and rival views of what Jesus’ death on the cross meant.
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