Volume 11 (no 1) May 1981

The Nicene Creed; the new publications Prayers for Sunday Services and New Ways to Worship; the death of Miss Wallace Williamson.

The Lee Lecture of 1980. ‘Untouchables’ in India, Afro-Americans in the USA and other examples show how Christian worship can be liberating for those who do not have freedom. Yet worship is so often not seen as freeing, and is rejected for other substitutes which themselves enslave. It is essential to free worship from distortions… Read More

The extraordinary variety in attitudes and practices in worship since the Reformation. Worship has accommodated itself to culture. Although there has been a release of language, congregations still have their unspoken limits for worship reform. The need to change the images we use. We also limit and idolise the church’s art and music; openness to… Read More

This article outlines developments in England from 1836 onwards and where they related and where they were independent of similar developments in Scotland. Most of the article relates to the publication of books of psalms, paraphrases and hymns, with a detailed account of the decisions of the Synod. The article is to be continued.

This offers analysis of the 1971 document, Public Baptism of Infants: Private Baptism of Infants: Baptism of Adults.Theological changes are noted: the move from an Augustinian approach (cleansing of sins) to a Cyprianic (entrance into the church); that baptism is a process. The role of the parents becomes more central and the idea of the… Read More

Prayers for Sunday Services (Saint Andrew Press, 1980), by John Huxtable; Theological Foundations for Ministry: Selected Readings for a Theology of the Church in Ministry, ed. Ray S Anderson (T & T Clark, Eerdmans 1979), by Duncan Forrester.