Journals

The chancellor of Truro cathedral outlines his role.

The first part looks closely at what was said at the Last Supper and the possible interpretations. The article then continues with a reconstruction of the development of the eucharist in the church.

Charles Stobie finds fault with the new Church Hymnary: in its treatment of the metrical psalms, the unsingable nature of the modern hymn tunes, and the dropping of sung amens. He commends the inclusion of prose psalms, and defends the Victorian element of the book, taking issue with an editorial in a preceding issue of the Review. Colin Miller takes issue with a review in the previous issue of The Divine Service which wished to delete an opening metrical psalm; the writer argues against this judgement for historical reasons.

This, the presidential address of May 1974, ranges over a number of issues that are arising at the time before focusing on the real presence of Christ in the eucharist, welcoming the contribution towards restoring the full understanding of this in recent Roman Catholicism by Dom Odo Casel and showing how this had continued as the Reformed Church's position over the centuries. The paper does not seek to discuss the mode of the presence of Christ in the Sacrament so much as the need for contemporary worship to acknowledge Christ's presence in all dimensions of worship, that, as reports on worship to the General Assemblies of 1970 and 1973 affirmed, Christian worship shares in the worship of Christ.

This paper was given at a gathering of the Leicester Diocesan Clergy. It may be taken as a continuation of the set of papers over more than one issue of the Liturgical Review in which the doctrine and practice of the Church of England are shared. The paper first explores the concept of eucharistic sacrifice, finding that the eucharist affords access to the death and resurrection of Christ. It then explores the concept of real presence, finding three misunderstandings, which he explores with the help of T F Torrance. This paper is to be continued in a future issue.

The author works in the University of Sierra Leone and offers a detailed analysis of how the various denominations find expression in a culture which itself was alien to its environment. The account covers how Christian doctrines find echoes in local traditional religious beliefs and how Christian practices and styles of worship are modified by local practice.