Volume 4 (no 2) Nov 1974

Observations on how far the Church of Scotland is mistress of her own affairs; on the putting up of regimental colours in churches; about a service of reconciliation in Melrose Abbey.

This, the presidential address of May 1974, ranges over a number of issues that are arising at the time before focusing on the real presence of Christ in the eucharist, welcoming the contribution towards restoring the full understanding of this in recent Roman Catholicism by Dom Odo Casel and showing how this had continued as… Read More

This article continues the description of the workings of the Church of England begun in the previous issue, in this case by the person who was secretary on the Anglican side at the conversations with the Church of Scotland. The bishop notes several roles: the liturgical, confirmation, consecration, the pastoral, the administrative, and the Church’s… Read More

This paper was given at a gathering of the Leicester Diocesan Clergy. It may be taken as a continuation of the set of papers over more than one issue of the Liturgical Review in which the doctrine and practice of the Church of England are shared. The paper first explores the concept of eucharistic sacrifice,… Read More

The author works in the University of Sierra Leone and offers a detailed analysis of how the various denominations find expression in a culture which itself was alien to its environment. The account covers how Christian doctrines find echoes in local traditional religious beliefs and how Christian practices and styles of worship are modified by… Read More

The author is a fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, and Head of the Department of Art History in the University of Cambridge. Taking as a starting point an appraisal of part of a relief, he expands the context to embrace the history of the Cistercians and their attitudes to art and architecture at the time,… Read More

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… Read More

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.

This is compiled from a number of sources.

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… Read More