Volume 4 (no 1) May 1974

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.

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… Read More

A brief response which goes through the orders provided, making comparisons and offering comment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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… Read More

This is the narrative read on that occasion, on 26th August, 1973).