Volume 04 Spring 1983

Considers the implications of a suggestion in Life and Work that sermons should be more open to questioning and dialogue.

Delivered at Edinburgh and Aberdeen November 1982 by the Revd Principal A Raymond George. Pre-Reformation rites are reviewed but the bulk of the paper consists of a searching analysis of some recently revised rites: the Book of Common Order 1979 (Third Order), the Roman Mass of 1970 (eucharistic prayer IV) the Alternative Service Book 1980… Read More

The Orthodox Liturgy (Congregational Edition): Oxford University Press, 1983 reviewed by R Stuart Louden Hymns for a Day (St Andrew Press), a supplement to Church Hymnary: Third Edition reviewed by RECJ How to Talk with God: The basics of prayer, Stephen Winwar (Mowbray, 1983 reprint), reviewed by W G Neill Growing into Faith, Gerard Rummergy… Read More

These are so titled to indicate that they are complementary to the morning service and neither a substitute nor an alternative. It is more liturgically structured than that service, the shape derived from the Taizé Evening Office and using some material from it. It also has a ‘led Bible Study’, prayers for the sick by… Read More

During the 500th anniversary of South Leith Parish Church, Edinburgh.