Rev David Beckett thanks the editor, Rev Wm Neill, who is laying down office. He notes the increase in the membership of the Society, now some 300 and reminds readers membership is not for ministers only. This is even more important given the report of a survey concerning the education needs of church members when worship scored a low rate of interest.
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A description of an experimental eucharistic service on the theme of power: state, education, power over others (race, sex), church. Images of power were employed.
Reference: Volume 15 Winter 1986, p3
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 So Much Garbage, or God’s is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory... | 1.49 MB |
The retiring editor contributes prayers inspired by hymns and psalms: 'All people that on earth do dwell'. 'How lovely is thy dwelling place', 'Praise to the Lord, the Almighty', 'Jesu, thou joy of loving hearts', 'Let us with a gladsome mind', 'God is love, his the care', 'Holy Spirit, truth divine'.
Reference: Volume 15 Winter 1986, p8
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| Praying through the Hymn Book | 2.24 MB |
Sermon preached on such an occasion.
Reference: Volume 15 Winter 1986, p16
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| Ordination and Induction of a Woman Minister | 1.33 MB |
Dr Lees gives his opinion that there has been a decided improvement in the services of the church (1877).
Reference: Volume 15 Winter 1986, p19
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| A Dip in the Archives | 1.33 MB |
A Computer in Your Church, Malcolm Dunlop, SPCK, reviewed by Elizabeth Mackenzie
Alone with God, Jean Holl, Triangle, reviewed by Margaret Stein
Reference: Volume 15 Winter 1986, p21
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| Reviews | 630.09 KB |
No summary currently available
Reference: Volume 15 Winter 1986, p23
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| Prayers of Intercession for a Seafarers’ Service | 704.95 KB |
Information for new readers from the Secretary.
Reference: Volume 10 Spring 1985, p1
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| The Church Service Society | 344.1 KB |
Some remarks about the role of President.
Reference: Volume 10 Spring 1985, p2
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| Editorial | 342.04 KB |
Sir Ronald Johnson takes as starting point the volume on the Paraphrases by Douglas Maclagan and reflects on how they came about, who were some of the writers, and what music they were sung to. The author, a leading church organist, discusses how some tunes are wrong for the words and skew the interpretation. Particular mention is made of writers Thomas Blacklock and Michael Bruce, and ends with a discussion of his Paraphrase 58 and how it resonates with an ecumenical view of the Eucharist.
Reference: Volume 10 Spring 1985, p3
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| Some Thoughts on the Paraphrases | 2.27 MB |
Ron Farrell, a candidate for ministry in the Church of England, tackles the belief that dancing is inappropriate in worship. Reasons given may be that it is associated with paganism or heresy, or arises from the platonic distinction between body and soul. It re-emerged in the Shakers and some formal Catholic rituals may be seen as suggesting formal dance. The author sees dance as expressing our embodiment in worship and a corrective to views that denigrate matter. Further, it is creative, it is communal, it has an element of sacramentality – body and spirit making joyful sacrifice of praise. But dance must be properly integrated in the liturgy. (The paper includes the interesting information that Sydney Carter’s song – used in the title here – finds its origin in a gnostic account of the Last Supper in which Christ leads his disciples in dance.)
Reference: Volume 10 Spring 1985, p9
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| Dance and Worship | 1.56 MB |
This is offered by the Revd Paul Burgess, warden of Carberry Tower.
Reference: Volume 10 Spring 1985, p13
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| A Form for Holy Communion | 1.1 MB |
Paper presented to the 9th International Conference on Patristic Studies in 1983 by the Revd Dr J C Thomas, University of Nigeria. The writer argues that it is a myth that in this period the presiding minister faced the people, found even in learned sources. From early in the life of the church, people faced east. In the Roman tradition sometimes the priest did face the people, for example when the altar was built over a reliquary. Another instance was when the façade of basilicas was to the east (and in which was the door) so that for prayer people turned to face that direction. He concludes with the proposal that in that period the president faced the east, usually facing the same direction as the congregation and not towards them.
Reference: Volume 10 Spring 1985, p16
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| Facing the People in the Patristic Period: The Myth and the Reality | 1.9 MB |
The President announces a plan to make the Society and its work more widely known, to be discussed at a meeting in St Mary’s Dundee in October. There will also be papers on the Church and the Arts, and on the devotional uses of the current Church Hymnary.
Reference: Volume 11 Autumn 1985, p1
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| From the President | 402.93 KB |
The editor suggests that as well as Bible Study in a congregation, there should be a place for ‘hymn study’. He also announces his retiral and takes the opportunity to suggest that the title of the journal be changed.
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A story about an absent-minded minister.
Reference: Volume 11 Autumn 1985, p2
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| Editorial | 1.07 MB |