Louis FitzGerald Benson (1855-1930)

Biography (The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology)

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Louis F. Benson is buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Louis F. Benson is buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Paths of Silence (1879)

Enagisma (1881)

The Hymnal (1895)

Selections from the Psalter For Use in the Service of the Churches (1896)

Hymns & Verses (1897)

The Hymnal For Use in Congregational Churches (1897)

The Liturgical Position of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (1897)

The Chapel Hymnal (1898, 1910)

The Best Church Hymns (1899)

The School Hymnal (1899)

The Early Editions of Watts’s Hymns (1902)

Rev. Benson's Address to the Presbyterian Historical Society (1902)

The Evolution of a Great Hymn (1902)

Studies of Familiar Hymns (1903)

The American Revisions of Watts's Psalms (1903)

The Conventional Hymnal (1903)

President Davies as a Hymn Writer (1904)

The Hymns of President Davies (1904)

The Book of Common Worship (1906)

“The First Religious Newspaper” (1907)

John Calvin and the Psalmody of the Reformed Churches (1909)

English Hymnody: Its Later Developments (1910)

The Westminster Hymnal For Congregational and Social Use and For the Sunday School: Designed For Churches Making Use of One Book in All the Services (1911)

The Development of the English Hymn (1912)

The Liturgical Use of English Hymns (1912)

Dr. Watts' "Renovation of Psalmody" (1912)

The Hymnody of the Methodist Revival (1913)

The Hymnody of the Evangelical Revival (1914)

The English Hymn: Its Development and Use in Worship (1915)

What Did Doctor Witherspoon Say? (1916)

The Scotch-Irish in America (1917)

For God and Country: Hymns for Use in War Time (1918)

Shakespeare and the Metrical Psalms (1918)

The Common Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church (1918)

Andrew Charles Barclay: 1839-1919 (1920)

A Book of Family Worship (1921)

Studies of Familiar Hymns Second Series (1923)

“I Want To Be An Angel”: The History of a Hymn (1924)

Four Hymns (1924)

Christian Song (1926)

The Reverend John Brownlie (1926)

“What Did Doctor Witherspoon Say?”: A Postscript (1927)

The Hymnody of the Christian Church (1927)

Louis FitzGerald Benson, D.D. (1931)

Louis F. Benson — Man of Vision (1955)


This 3-part article, a Stone Lecture delivered at Princeton Theological Seminary in February 1907, appeared in the March, June and September 1909 issues of the Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society.

This 2-part article appeared in the July and October 1912 issues of The Princeton Theological Review.