Understandings of prayer on the part of James, Freud, and contemporary writers like Lee and the Wiemans, and of worship by Sargant, Pratt, Freud again, Reik and Jung. It is to be regretted that the study of prayer and worship has become detached from the main body of academic psychology, being mainly left in the… Read More
The article focuses on the period following the Disruption, when the Free Church began to find that its first accommodation was inadequate, and finds Pilkington, albeit ignored and misunderstood, the most original designer of churches in the nineteenth century. The origins of his style are found in the Gothic revival movement but mixed with northern… Read More
It is claimed that this movement began in Scotland. Edward Irving is described, and the Catholic Apostolic Church. Speaking in tongues was not in the manner of earlier manifestations, like the Jansenists but were related to faithful response to the study and teaching of the Scriptures. John McLeod Campbell is mentioned in this connection. Irving… Read More
This was not a satire on the church, as often thought, but a satire on human weakness and the imperfections of the human intellect, especially labouring under the sin of pride, living as a saint in public but a hypocrite in private – a double standard. The paper, from a lecturer in the department of… Read More
A detailed analysis of the announcements such as calls to worship or prayer, introducing hymns, use of Scripture Sentences, including unnecessary circumlocutions. People need to be helped to pray, hearing something for the first time; how biddings can help. Announcing Scripture and following its reading, when introduction to the content is helpful. Intimations are discussed…. Read More
A lecturer in religious education offers advice on conducting assemblies in schools and how, in language and theme, to help the occasion to be meaningful and relevant to young people. He concludes with a review of several books designed to assist.
This is an observer’s description of typical Sunday morning worship. An interesting feature is how confession and absolution are handled in relation to celebrations of Holy Communion. She also finds a strong element of experiment in favour of participation by children and young people.
A round up by the Librarian of New College of recent publications. The number of works relating to Communion is noteworthy. There are also several on church music.
Professor T F Torrance’s presidential address, The Mind of Jesus Christ in Worship – the Problem of Apollinarianism in the Liturgy. The overseas societies of the CSS in Ireland, New Zealand and Victoria are mentioned. The second centenary lecture to be delivered by Rev Prof John Barkley, Belfast. Rev John Heron to be president and… Read More
In the New Testament there is reference submersion, immersion and affusion. It is necessary to distinguish between the first two. He then discusses surviving fonts and what suggestions they make about the practice of baptism in that place at that time. Many such baptisteries were separate from the church building itself. It is wrong to… Read More
