In responding to the lecture by Professor Bernard Reymond, Professor Whyte responds to the question, Is a genuine reformed architecture possible today? But do we have a reformed understanding of the church and its worship? Major influences are American fundamentalism and revivalism, and an undiscriminating and uncritical ecumenism. Whyte laments the closure of churches, the lack of imagination in preserving significant buildings. He notes that the Church Service Society began to revitalise worship through the recovery of a genuine Reformed tradition, but later an Anglicising archaism came in. After 1945, architects were not briefed in terms of worship, education, preaching and theology. St Columba's Glenrothes broke the mould.
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Reference: Volume 34 Pentecost 1998, p52
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The writer employs the three headings of prayer, psalms and poetry to give an account of worship and spirituality of Columba's community.
Reference: Volume 32 Pentecost 1997, p1
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| Columba - His Liturgical Approach | 1.66 MB |
The chaplain at the Royal Cornhill and Woodlands Hospital discusses aspects of liturgy in this context, focusing on the introduction, prayer, praise, address, movements and participation. The order for a Harvest Thanksgiving Service follows.
Reference: Volume 32 Pentecost 1997, p7
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| An Example of a Liturgy for People with Learning Difficulties | 1.53 MB |
The chaplain at the Royal Cornhill and Woodlands Hospital discusses aspects of liturgy in this context, focusing on the introduction, prayer, praise, address, movements and participation. The order for a Harvest Thanksgiving Service follows.
Reference: Volume 32 Pentecost 1997, p14
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| Woodlands Harvest Thanksgiving Service | 852.19 KB |
Studies in the History of Worship in Scotland, edd. Duncan Forrester and Douglas Murray, second edition, 1996, T & T Clark: extended review by A Stewart Todd.
Supplementary Versions of the Scottish Metrical Psalms, Psalmody Committee of the Free Church of Scotland 1994
The Psalms, The Liturgical Psalter, New Inclusive Language Version, HarperCollins 1995
Psalms for Christian Prayer, Bede Griffiths, ed Roland R Rogers, HarperCollins 1995. Reviews by Charles Robertson.
The Music of Silence, David Steindl-Rast OSB, with Sharon Lebell, HarperCollins 1995, with CD The Benedictine Monks of Santo Dominto de Silos. Review by T Graeme Longmuir.
L'Architecture Religieuse des Protestants, Bernard Reymond, Geneva, Labor et Fides. Review by James A Whyte.
Reference: Volume 32 Pentecost 1997, p19
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| Book Reviews | 5.82 MB |
Thomas Henry Keir MA DD
William James Ross MA
Peter Wright
Michael Chibbett
Peter Davidson
James Young Finlayson MA BD Dip Ed
Alastair Kenneth Cranmer Robertson MA BD PhD
Donald Farquhar MacLeod
Reference: Volume 32 Pentecost 1997, p40
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| Obituaries | 1.23 MB |
This quotation from Ian Maclaren's Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush prefaces a survey from earliest times to the present, including recent Scottish custom, of the rituals surrounding the funeral, drawing on the Fathers, other theological writings, service books, literature and statistical accounts. Against this background the writer examines current Scottish funeral orders.
Reference: Volume 33 All Saints 1997, p1
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| “A Sense of Fitness” - Presidential Address, May 1997 | 3.65 MB |
No source is given but reference to the contribution of Roman Catholic and Church of Scotland/Free Church Chaplains suggests that it might have been prepared within the Royal Navy for general use.
Reference: Volume 33 All Saints 1997, p16
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| Order of Service for the Blessing of a Ship | 1.42 MB |
An extensive article in which Carmina Gadelica is examined for its prayer content and how it may be drawn on, both in actuality and in approach, in creating contemporary prayers.
Reference: Volume 33 All Saints 1997, p24
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| Heart-Food | 5.68 MB |
To arrive at a searching scholarly examination of the “four action shape of the Communion Liturgy” by way of Germain Greer, Desmond Wilcox, and Madonna is no mean feat. Spink’s approach is quixotic and may not find universal approval.
Reference: Volume 30 Advent 1996, p1
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| Towards a Holistic Shape of the Eucharistic Liturgy | 3.61 MB |
In 1995 the Presbytery of Perth resolved that at each occasion of ordination to the ministry of Word and Sacrament, the newly ordained minister should preside at the sacrament of Holy Communion. The article records the thinking which lay behind that decision and some of the arguments for and against the practice.
Reference: Volume 30 Advent 1996, p10
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| Celebration of Holy Communion by the Newly Ordained | 1.8 MB |
This is a very useful little history of the offering of daily prayers at the start of each day in the House of Commons, including the origins and structures of the prayers themselves. There is a good bibliography.
Reference: Volume 30 Advent 1996, p15
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| The Daily Prayers of the House of Commons | 3.05 MB |
A set of prayers for morning worship.
Reference: Volume 30 Advent 1996, p23
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| Morning Service | 977.38 KB |
The insights provided by Bruce Neill in this short article on his almost 25 years as a naval chaplain, are enough to persuade the reader that he was anything but ‘at sea’. One might have wished that the article itself had been longer.
Reference: Volume 30 Advent 1996, p28
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| Almost All at Sea | 1.72 MB |