My Lord, you wore no royal crown
My Lord, you wore no royal crown. Christopher Martin Idle* (1938- ).
Written in November 1978 when the author was rector of Limehouse, after reading Hans Küng’s On Being a Christian. It follows Küng in seeing Jesus Christ as transcending leadership models, and ends with a personal prayer. It is one of author’s own favourites: he chose it for the events to mark the publication of HFTC in 1982, set to the arrangement in triple time of the tune by Michael Praetorius*, PUER NOBIS NASCITUR (cf. ‘Creator of the starry height’*).
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