Yes, Dianne, you are right, and it should be revisited. Denominational work overall is something that should someday be addressed, so that we can trace denominations, but a project of that size makes me tired just to think about!
We don't use wikipedia for denomination names. We mostly use a combination of ARDA (Association of Religion Data) for names, classifications, and history and Library of Congress Name Authorities. DNAH used generic denomination names based on (I believe) the most recent split.
It's complicated. I don't know which denomination published the hymnal this thread is centered on, but there are at least a dozen denominations in the United States called “Church of God”, at least two of which have “Original” prefixed. One is apparently actually “The (Original) Church of God”, another is “Original Church of God” (without “The” and without the parentheses). Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.) may or may not really have been the original home of either one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_(Original)_Church_of_God see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_God_(Cleveland,_Tennessee)#Related_bodies … and this is all distinct from the Anderson, Indiana, outfit, which is less “Pentecostal” than the linked list's entries. Then there are the various Church of God in Christ groups, including the Mennonite ones. But Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.) doesn't appear in the Hymnal list by denomination even though that's the place of publication of the “Church Hymnal” which the database says is “(Original) Church of God”…
By the way, Dianne, thank you for your paragraph on the origins and history of MAORI, too! The tune authority for it is confusing, but your paragraph, which appears in duplicate, comes as close to clarifying that situation as anything I've seen.
Yes, I have always wondered what would happen if all the Church of God variants got together in a cage match. Bearing in mind that I have just started reading the wiki on becoming an editor and thus am nearly clueless, I'm wondering about the discrepancy in the Hymnal list by denomination you linked, Haruo, which says the Church Hymnal (1951) is from (Original) Church of God and what I get when I look up that same hymnal through “My Hymnals," which says it is from Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn). I have tried to attach a snip of what I'm seeing--not sure if that's working. What I can say, based on my knowledge of my husband's family, is that the Hymns of the Spirit (1969) and Church Hymnal (1951) are both from the denomination that definitely calls itself “Church of God [Cleveland, Tenn] and I have never heard them call themselves ”Original Church of God," for whatever that's worth. It looks like my attempt to screen shot isn't working--I've tried both GIF and JPEG format, not sure what the problem is.
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Yes, Dianne, you are right, and it should be revisited. Denominational work overall is something that should someday be addressed, so that we can trace denominations, but a project of that size makes me tired just to think about!
We don't use wikipedia for denomination names. We mostly use a combination of ARDA (Association of Religion Data) for names, classifications, and history and Library of Congress Name Authorities. DNAH used generic denomination names based on (I believe) the most recent split.
It's complicated. I don't know which denomination published the hymnal this thread is centered on, but there are at least a dozen denominations in the United States called “Church of God”, at least two of which have “Original” prefixed. One is apparently actually “The (Original) Church of God”, another is “Original Church of God” (without “The” and without the parentheses). Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.) may or may not really have been the original home of either one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_(Original)_Church_of_God see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_God_(Cleveland,_Tennessee)#Related_bodies … and this is all distinct from the Anderson, Indiana, outfit, which is less “Pentecostal” than the linked list's entries. Then there are the various Church of God in Christ groups, including the Mennonite ones. But Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.) doesn't appear in the Hymnal list by denomination even though that's the place of publication of the “Church Hymnal” which the database says is “(Original) Church of God”…
By the way, Dianne, thank you for your paragraph on the origins and history of MAORI, too! The tune authority for it is confusing, but your paragraph, which appears in duplicate, comes as close to clarifying that situation as anything I've seen.
Kinda makes you wonder what the criteria are for which hymnals get added.
Yes, I have always wondered what would happen if all the Church of God variants got together in a cage match. Bearing in mind that I have just started reading the wiki on becoming an editor and thus am nearly clueless, I'm wondering about the discrepancy in the Hymnal list by denomination you linked, Haruo, which says the Church Hymnal (1951) is from (Original) Church of God and what I get when I look up that same hymnal through “My Hymnals," which says it is from Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn). I have tried to attach a snip of what I'm seeing--not sure if that's working. What I can say, based on my knowledge of my husband's family, is that the Hymns of the Spirit (1969) and Church Hymnal (1951) are both from the denomination that definitely calls itself “Church of God [Cleveland, Tenn] and I have never heard them call themselves ”Original Church of God," for whatever that's worth. It looks like my attempt to screen shot isn't working--I've tried both GIF and JPEG format, not sure what the problem is.