This paper consists of the Presidential Address to the Annual Meeting of the Church Service Society and begins by giving an account of the contrasting ways the Reformation happened in England and Scotland. The author describes the succeeding service books used up until the Westminster Directory was adopted and the ultimate departure from many of the usages of the Reformation, giving rise to a pattern which prevailed until nineteenth century moves towards a more conscious order in worship, beginning with individual efforts and culminating in the establishment of the Church Service Society. The paper then charts in some detail the developments by which this concern was ultimately taken up by General Assemblies and its subsequent authorisation of particular books and orders.
Journals
The paper begins by summarising the developments in the centuries following the Reformation in Scotland, pausing on the ‘anglicising’ of the liturgy from the sixth edition of Euchologion onwards, up until the most recent publications. Speaking to a Cambridge society, the author outlines the Scottish practice of the communion season before making a closer examination of contemporary orders in the light of the ongoing Liturgical Movement, finding these wanting in some respects. Gains include a deepening interest in the Christian Year, and an enrichment of the language of prayer and of hymnody. In discussion of the Invitation, the author recalls the custom of ‘lifting the tokens’ (now Communion Cards) which is said still to prevail. A detailed critique of the 1940 Order in respect of the Liturgy of the Faithful is given, again from the perspective of the Liturgical Movement. The mode of communicating is further discussed, as are Reformed understandings of symbolism, presence and sacrifice.
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Following a outline of the history of the parish and the parishes out of which the new parish was created, a description of the building by Sir Robert Lorimer is given, and of its furnishings and stained glass. Photographs of the exterior and interior are provided.
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| St Margaret’s Parish Church, Knightswood | 6.3 MB |
Todd was later to develop the ideas in this paper for the Lee Lecture of 1964, published in theAnnual of May 1965. Here he approaches the music of the liturgy by way of the book of Revelation and the song of the angels as well as the music of creation as in the Psalms. The music of liturgy is, however, to be seen as different from these other musics. Prior is the God who acts in worship, and music, as handmaid, services the Christ-Word in the midst. This leads the author to call in question much now familiar in worship, questioning the role of organ voluntaries (as too often speaking in tongues when ‘I would rather that you prophesied’: chorale preludes are preferred as closer to prophecy in that they frame a melody associated with words), anthems where music is pre-eminent or hymn tunes which do not serve the text.
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| The Function of Music in Worship | 4.39 MB |
Included are descriptions of the contents of new volumes by Max Thurian and Roger Schutz and several publications on the origins of the Roman liturgy. Two new studies of Orthodox liturgy are described, as are a close study of the Te Deum. Of note is a book by Patrick Cowley which argues a change of view concerning the season of Advent. An account of a practical initiative based at a Cambridge college, relating to the Parish Communion movement, is provided by J.A.T. Robinson inLiturgy Coming to Life. Also mentioned are studies in liturgical revision (Wales, South Africa), worship and ministry, and the Paschal Liturgy. A collection of prayers by Reformers is found useful as are two books of liturgical meditations. Church music is the subject of volumes by Charles Cleall (choir training), and of a major three-volume French historical work, the latter promising others following the Encyclical Musicae Sacrae Disciplina (1955).
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| Recent Liturgical Literature | 5.36 MB |
These are on Wotherspoon and Kirkpatrick’s Manual of Church Doctrine (rev. and enlarged by Torrance and Wright), and J.H.S. Burleigh’s A Church History of Scotland.
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| Reviews | 1 MB |
An account of the 1960 annual meeting of the Church Service Society, at which Dr. Foster Franklin’s presidential address was given (published in current issue) and Dr. Roy Sanderson was elected President.
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| Annual Meeting | 623.31 KB |
A report is given of the 1960 one day conference at which Dr. Stewart Mechie of the University of Glasgow presented a paper on ‘The Book of Common Order and the Worship of the Scottish Reformers’. Notice is given of the forthcoming (1961) one day conference at which Professor J.A. Whyte was to speak on ‘Liturgy, Laity and Architecture’.
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| Regional Conferences | 520.75 KB |
A list of correspondents for the Society in the 59 Presbyteries is given.
(All between pages 26 and 27)
St Margaret’s Parish Church, Knightswood St Margaret’s Parish Church, Knightswood: Nave and Chancel St Margaret’s Parish Church, Knightswood: The Chancel St Margaret’s Parish Church, Knightswood: Minister’s Stall and Prayer Desk
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| Illustrations | 395.79 KB |
Professor Reid examines whether a richer meaning of the phrase, ‘In Remembrance of Me’, is to be found in the Eucharistic rite. Under a series of sub-headings, he attempts to do just that:
delimitation of the field;
the element of remembrance in Passover;
the character of remembrance;
practical corollaries
He concludes by discussing the place of sacrifice in the Eucharist and asks whether the Eucharist is a memorial of Christ’s sacrifice or an offering of Christ or of his sacrifice, arguing that the matter is a restatement of one of the fundamental issues at the Reformation.
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| “In Remembrance of Me” | 8.62 MB |
This article offers a religious and architectural history of Dunblane Cathedral together with some photographs of the exterior and interior of the building.
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| Dunblane Cathedral and its Environs | 6.88 MB |
The Rev John A Lamb, BD, Ph D, Librarian at New College, the University of Edinburgh
Dr Lamb argues that unity is one of the most urgent problems facing the Church and he attempts to look at the relation between liturgy and unity which he believes has been somewhat neglected and should be studied more widely and deeply. Does the worship of the Church suggest or express its unity? Can liturgy help towards unity?, he asks. He tries to answer these questions in the light of biblical criticism, ecclesiastical history and in varying types of worship – Roman, Anglican and Presbyterian. He concludes by stating that unity is grounded in the unity of God and in the uniqueness of the incarnation and that the church is one church, whatever appearances may suggest, because Christ is one for the Church and because the only true life of the Church is that which it has in him. When church people get caught up in worship and the Eucharist, they lose their isolation as they form ‘the one Bread in Christ’.
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| Liturgy and Unity | 7.73 MB |
The Life and Work of Edmund Bishop, Nigel Abercrombie
Liturgies of the Past, Archdale A King
The Mass, A Liturgical Commentary, A Crogaert
The Worship of God, M D Phillipe OP
The History of the Mass, Fr Amiot
The Mass of the Roman Rite, J A Jungmann
Before Mass, Romano Guardini
L’Euchariste, Memorial du Seigneur, Sacrifice d’action de grace et d’intercession
La Liturgie Eucharistique a Taize
Le Sacrifice Eucharistique selon les théologiens réformés francais du XVIIe siècle
Vivre l’aujourd’hui de Dieu, Roger Schutz, Taizé
Worship in Ancient Israel, A S Herbert
Luther on Worship, An Interpretation, Vilmos Vajta
Eucharist and Sacrifice, Gustaf Aulen
The Sacred Bridge, The Interdependence of Liturgy and Music in Synagogue and Church during the First Millennium, Eric Werner
Church Music and Theology, Eric Routley
The Congregational Church Service Book
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| Recent Liturgical Literature | 5.09 MB |
No summary currently available
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| Notes and Comments | 1.04 MB |