The Christian Life Hymnal Review

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The Christian Life Hymnal ReviewDear Amazon Shopper,
This hymnal offered such an appealing collection of songs that I bought twenty of them (and the accompanist edition) for my home. Now I regret doing so.
Before buying The Christian Life Hymnal you should know that it has altered the traditional songs to make them gender neutral. Nowhere in the introduction or accompanying material do they say that they have done this. If they had, I would not have purchased these hymnals. It is very distracting to worship when the poetic language of the original version has been converted to sloppy English with gender neutral language. If you know any of the traditional hymns, you will HATE the changes and you will have to spend hours correcting your hymnal.
What follows are just a few annoying examples of the changes that the editors of the hymnal made (the reality is that they changed every gender reference that they could except for those referring to Jesus as the Son and God as the Father):
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY
"Holy, holy, holy! Though the darkness hide Thee, though the eye of sinfulness Thy glory may not see" instead of "though the eye of sinful man Thy glory may not see" (Do the editors not see that "sinfulness" does not make the personal connection between mankind and his sin? Is it "sinfulness" itself that does not see God's glory? How stupid and theologically misleading!)
HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING
"pleased as man with us to dwell" instead of "pleased as man with men to dwell"
"born that we no more may die" instead of "born that man no more may die"
"born to raise us from the earth, born to give us second birth" instead of "born to raise the sons of earth, born to give them second birth." (Do the editors not see the reference to the resurrection of the Son in the words "raise the sons of earth"?)
JOYFUL, JOYFUL, WE ADORE THEE
"love divine is reigning o'er us, leading us with mercy's hand" instead of "father love is reigning o'er us, brother love binds man to man" (Do the editors really think that "love divine" has the same emotional and personal connection as "father love"?)
GOOD CHRISTIAN FRIENDS, REJOICE
"good Christian friends, rejoice" instead of "good Christian men, rejoice" (Do they editors really think that Christians might think that Christian women should not rejoice!)
I love the collection of songs, but the changes ruin the flow and poetry of the originals while adding nothing (everyone knows that "brother love" includes "sister love"!). The editors should not have changed the originals, but if they felt the necessity to do so, they should have made that very clear in their promotional materials. Somewhere they should have mentioned that they neutralized the language. I hope that they will publish another edition where they retain the original language.The Christian Life Hymnal Overview

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