Mahakasih Yang Ilahi atau Love Divine, All Loves Excelling adalah sebuah kidung Kristen karya Charles Wesley. Secara garis besar, kidung tersebut ditemukan dalam nyaris seluruh kumpulan kidung umum pada masa lampau, tak hanya kitab-kitab kidung Methodis dan Anglikan dan kumpulan-kumpulan kidung komersial dan ekumenikal, namun juga kidung-kidung yang diterbitkan oleh tradisi-tradisi Reformed, Presbiterian, Gereja Baptis, Brethren, Adventis Hari Ketujuh, Lutheran, Kongregasionalis, Pentakosta, dan Katolik Roma.
| Mahakasih Yang Ilahi | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Kidung |
| Ditulis | 1747 |
| Teks | Charles Wesley |
| Berdasarkan | 1 Yohanes 4:16 |
| Meter | 8.7.8.7 D |
| Melodi | "Beecher" karya John Zundel, "Hyfrydol", "Blaenwern" karya William Penfro Rowlands |
Referensi sunting
Kutipan sunting
- This is the rubric for the hymn in the 1935 (U.S.) Methodist hymn book.
- http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/FHOP/45
- Based on a collation of 80 selected hymn books from 1747 to 2007.
Sumber sunting
- [1] Benson, Louis F. The English hymn : its Development and Use in Worship. N.Y. : Charles Doran, 1915.
- Bradley, Ian. The Book of Hymns. Testament Books, 1989. (ISBN 0-517-16241-5)
- Frost, Maurice. Historical Companion to Hymns Ancient and Modern. [London]: William Clowes, 1962.
- Hymnary.org, site of the Dictionary of North American Hymnology.
- [2] Julian, John. A Dictionary of Hymnology setting forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of all Ages and Nations .... New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892.
- Watson, J. R. An Annotated Anthology of Hymns. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.