Here, the editor of the Scottish National Dictionary discusses how far the vocabulary of the nation related to church usage. A widespread example is 'mass', and the saints gave their names to fairs and events throughout the country. Included are the words and terms used around the Communion seasons post-Reformation. This article is to be continued.
Journals
This feature is by several writers, male editor, male elder, female research student, female student of theology, who all from their various standpoints write about how women should dress as women, both in the leading of worship and in the course of their pastoral duties.
Reference: Volume 04, Number 02 Nov 1974, p50
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 The Dress of Women Ministers | 2.02 MB |
This is compiled from a number of sources.
Reference: Volume 04, Number 02 Nov 1974, p55
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| A Service for the Baptism of Infants | 858.87 KB |
This sermon on Thomas's question, 'How can we know the way?' asks whether Christian language is private language, confined to 'islands of thought' and beyond normal understanding compared with the 'real world' of scientific language and discovery. Yet, adopting this, we have cut ourselves off from the depths of our own being and narrowed the horizon of our understanding. But the exclusiveness of Jesus' answer to Thomas – 'No-one can come … except through me' – has become an embarrassment. It need not be exclusive; the same light that shines for us through Jesus may shine through Isaiah, Plato, Zoroaster, Buddha and others. We have much to learn but we cannot learn unless our learning comes from the depth of our own (Christian) experience.
Reference: Volume 04, Number 02 Nov 1974, p58
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| Witness and Communication | 1.8 MB |
This reports 65 members at the Annual Meeting, and an account of the meeting follows, when the Revd John B Logan was elected President. This was only the second Annual Meeting that had taken place in Greyfriars, the other being on the Society's Centenary. The notes separately announce the death of Mr William McCrea, an architect member.
Reference: Volume 04, Number 02 Nov 1974, p62
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| The Church Service Society - Notes | 628.08 KB |
Plate 1. Relief Sculpture, Melrose Abbey Museum
Plate 2. Great Seal of King John Balliol
Plate 3. Cambridge University Library Ms. Es. 3.59 f.29 vo
Plate 4. Rt Rev R R Williams, DD, Lord Bishop of Leicester
Reference: Volume 04, Number 02 Nov 1974
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| List of Plates | 1.72 MB |
This consists of a number of individual comments on the new Church Hymnary, on the publication of The Divine Service, liturgical experiment, organs, Communion cloths, lighting during the sermon, and the Church of England.
Reference: Volume 04, Number 01 May 1974, p1
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| Editorial | 1.36 MB |
The relationship is through God himself. The danger is to exchange a theology within relationship to God for one which is merely interested in other people's talk about God. Prayer is the place of void and emptiness where one can hear the Word that we study in theology. The paper discusses how personal encounter may affect intellectual detachment. The true relation is to be found in the object of both, in the nature of the gift of God rather than our subjective apprehension, and understanding can only be imparted in words taught by the Spirit.
Reference: Volume 04, Number 01 May 1974, p4
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| Prayer and the Study of Theology | 4.4 MB |
A brief response which goes through the orders provided, making comparisons and offering comment.
Reference: Volume 04, Number 01 May 1974, p14
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| Brief Comments on ‘Divine Service 1972’ | 2.39 MB |
This is an account, historical and architectural, of the two buildings in central Aberdeen which once house five separate congregations. The 'double' is the early building, the triple that erected for three Disruption congregations.
Reference: Volume 04, Number 01 May 1974, p16
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| Double and Triple - Aberdeen’s Singular Churches | 5.03 MB |
The (then) Archdeacon of Durham describes the structure of the Church and how they function in relation to each other. Particular attention is paid to the office of the Archdeacon.
Reference: Volume 04, Number 01 May 1974, p22
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| The Organization of the Church of England | 5.46 MB |
The paper explores the 'habit of mind' that was known as Calvinism as it was expressed in a wide range of Scottish poetry and fiction.
Reference: Volume 04, Number 01 May 1974, p33
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| Burns, Hogg and the Dangerous Art | 5.85 MB |
The writer highlights those echoes in the liturgy which have topical reference, or which are expressive of emotions pertaining to the times, or which draw on metaphor of the time.
Reference: Volume 04, Number 01 May 1974, p46
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| The Old Spanish Liturgy | 3.25 MB |
Jerusalem Prayers for the World Today, George Appleton (SPCK) (by B J MacHaffie), The Church Hymnary: Third Edition (OUP 1973) (by Ian Campbell), On Prayer, Hans Urs von Balthasar (SPCK) (by N D O'Donogue), Preaching at the Parish Communion, Series 3, Year 2, Hugh Fearn (Mowbrays) (by J W M Cameron), Twenty Five Psalms from a Modern Liturgical Psalter (CIO) (by H R Sefton).
Reference: Volume 04, Number 01 May 1974, p56
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| Book Reviews | 2.75 MB |