The Church's One Foundation
The Church's One Foundation is a Christian hymn written in the 1860s by Samuel John Stone.
The hymn was written as a direct response to some teaching, considered unorthodox at the time, by John William Colenso, first Bishop of Natal, which created schism within the church in South Africa.[1] This topic is alluded to within the third verse of the text "Though with a scornful wonder men see her sore oppressed, by schisms rent asunder, by heresies distressed." When Bishop Colenso was deposed for his teachings, he appealed to the higher ecclesiastical authorities in England. It was then that Samuel Stone became involved in the debate. It inspired him to write a set of hymns based on the Apostles' Creed in 1866. He titled it, Lyra Fidelium; Twelve Hymns on the Twelve Articles of the Apostles' Creed. "The Church's One Foundation" is based on the ninth article, "The holy Catholic Church; The Communion of Saints."
The hymn also served as inspiration for Rudyard Kipling's 1896 poem, Hymn Before Action.
The hymn is also used as the inspiration for the titles of several science fiction novels in the Safehold series by David Weber.
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- ^ "The Church's One Foundation". http://songsandhymns.org/hymns/detail/the-churchs-one-foundation. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
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