In Adam we have all been one

In Adam we have all been one. Martin Franzmann* (1907-1976). This hymn, based on Genesis 3 and 4, was written in 1961, and first published in 1963 by the Augsburg Publishing House as a supplement to their bulletin, with the tune ST FLAVIAN. It was then printed in another Lutheran context in A Selection of 13 Hymns… for use in public worship as a supplement to present hymnals (St Louis, 1967). It has appeared in subsequent Lutheran collections, including LBW and LSB. The Companion to LSB draws attention to a conference between German and American Lutherans held at Bad Boll in 1949, which ‘made a strong and favorable impression’on Franzmann, who wrote a twenty-page account of the conference...