New Honors for Name: The Timeless Legacy of Isaac Watts

Jerry Rushford, Pepperdine University

Abstract

Dr. Isaac Watts, the great preacher and logician of the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries, has been called the "father of the English hymn." Now, through narrative and vivid images shot on location in England, Professor of Church History Jerry Rushford paints a stirring portrait of this pioneering hymn writer who popularized congregational singing.