Sacred Signs

Author: 
Stephen Mark Holmes

This was a lecture given to the Church Service Society at its Annual Meeting in May 2017. It takes a fresh look at how worship was understood in Renaissance Scotland, and in the process disturbs some of the assumptions about the nature of the Scottish Protestant Reformation, including its timetable and uneven development in different parts of the country. One aspect is how far change in Catholic worship had progressed and was continuing to progress even beyond the traditional date of the Reformation. An emphasis is the matter of how liturgy was interpreted and taught to the people before and after the Reformation.

Reference: 
Volume 52 2017, p2-12
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Dr Stephen Mark Holmes is Honorary Fellow in the History of Christianity in the University of Edinburgh at New College, Associate Rector of St John’s Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, and Course Director of the Scottish Episcopal Institute. In 2015 he published Sacred Signs in Reformation Scotland: Interpreting Worship 1488-1590 and has published several other works in the area of the Society’s interests.