To Glorify God : Essays on Modern Reformed Liturgy

by Spinks, Bryan D.; Torrance, Iain R.

• ISBN13: 9780802838636
• ISBN10: 0802838634
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

These specially commissioned studies by international experts examine the background and theology of the two recent liturgical compilations in the English-speaking Reformed tradition. They explore a wide range of topics from the doctrine of God, the Atonement, and language, to the merits of the respective marriage and funeral rites. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Bryan D. Spinks is Professor of Liturgical Studies at the Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University. Dr Iain R. Torrance is Senior Lecturer in Divinity and Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Contributors	xi
Common Order: An introduction	1	(12)
Charles Robertson
Book of Common Worship (1993): The Presbyterian Church (USA), `Origins and anticipations'	13	(18)
Horace Allen
The making of the Book of Common Worship (1993)	31	(24)
Harold M. Daniels
Common Order (1994): Pioneering spirit or reflective mode?	55	(14)
Tom Davidson Kelly
From Braveheart to faint-heart: Worship and culture in postmodern Scotland	69	(16)
William Storrar
Canon and lection	85	(14)
John Goldingay
What's the story? The doctrine of God in Common Order and in the Book of Common Worship	99	(16)
Kathryn Greene-McCreight
The Book of Common Worship - the book of Common Order: What do they say and what do they assume about Christ?	115	(28)
Arlo D. Duba
Universalism in Common Order (1994) and the Book of Common Worship (1993)	143	(16)
David C. Searle
Fear of being left out and confidence in being included: The liturgical celebration of ecclesial boundaries. A comment on the baptismal liturgies of the Book of Common Worship (1993) and Common Order (1994)	159	(14)
Iain Torrance
The new marriage rites: Their place in the tradition	173	(14)
Kenneth Stevenson
Ecclesiology and soteriology shaping eschatology: The funeral rites in perspective	187	(14)
Bryan D. Spinks
The new rites of baptism: A dogmatic assessment	201	(12)
James F. Kay
`Everyday will I bless you, and praise your name forever and ever' -- Daily Prayer in Common Order and the Book of Common Worship	213	(14)
Graham Woolfenden
The celebration of the Eucharist in Common Order (1994) and in the Continental Reformed liturgies	227	(14)
Bruno Burki
Freedom in order: The language of Common Order (1994)	241	(14)
Bridget Nichols
Calvin into Hippolytus?	255	(14)
Donald Macleod
Index	269