Word: anglican
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...laymen. Along with doctrine, Protestantism strongly rejected this otherworldly spirituality. Puritanism, notes Congregationalist Historian Horton Davies of Princeton, dismissed liturgy "as a lame man might a crutch when he believed himself healed," in favor of free prayer, the Bible and simplicity. Davies quotes from a 1641 Puritan attack on Anglican Prayer Book worship as the work of "mere Surplice and Service-Book men, such as cannot doe so much as a Porter in his frocke; for he doth Service, and the Priest onely sayes service." But Davies adds that behind these polemics lay a strong theological conviction that set forms...
...liturgical revival that is restoring sacrament to a place of equality with the preached word. The decrees of the Vatican Council have already removed some Protestant objections to Catholic worship and encourage greater study and use of Scripture by laymen and priests alike. Last week, three English clergymen-an Anglican, a Roman Catholic and a Methodist-jointly recommended still another change in worship that could help bring divided Christianity closer together. They proposed that their churches draw up a common table of Bible lessons, which would be read by all churches on Sundays. With that, they declared, "we should surely...
Somewhat less felicitous is the new Psalter, which can also be used by churches next May. A modernization of the King James translation of the Psalms prepared by a team of Anglican scholars (among them: T. S. Eliot), it suffers from the same kind of drab, bureaucratic writing that mars the New English Bible. In the 23rd Psalm, for example, "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want" now reads, "The lord is my shepherd: therefore can I lack nothing...
...Holy Communion and baptism. The proposed Holy Communion is somewhat closer in structure to the Roman Catholic Mass than the present service; the Gloria, for example, would be recited at the beginning of worship following the Kyrie, instead of after distribution of the consecrated bread and wine. The Anglican liturgical commission that drew up the new services deliberately left the rubrics vague to allow for adaptation to the needs of individual churches...
...revisions are not intended only for ecclesiastical specialists, commented the Anglican Church Times, but are meant for "every churchgoer. The shape and style of the service in which he takes part on Sunday, or in which the church commits his dead to their maker, is something which affects him profoundly. His view of what Christianity is will be largely determined by the liturgical worship to which he is accustomed, and he carries this with him into his daily life...