The Article is online and in the current edition of the Print Edition of the Living Church http://livingchurch.org/covenant/2017/03/28/rediscover-the-gospel/ By Gavin Dunbar Editor’s note: This piece appears in the April 9 issue of The Living Church, as part of the Necessary or Expedient teaching series on prayer book revision. Mark Michael’s “Are we done with the ’79 prayer book?” is the well-known first piece in the series. Further essays in the series will appear here in … [Read more...]
William Law: The Spirit of Love, ii.
Look at all the Variety of Creatures; they are what they are for this only End, that in their infinite Variety, Degrees, and Capacities, they may be as so many speaking Figures, living Forms of the manifold Riches and Powers of Nature, as so many Sounds and Voices, Preachers, and Trumpets, giving Glory and Praise and Thanksgiving to that Deity of Love which gives Life to all Nature and Creature. (The Spirit of Love: ii. i. 4, William Law) There is a strange suggestion that the finite … [Read more...]
The Logic of the Lord’s Supper in Cranmer’s Common Prayer
The Spiritual Architecture of the Church's Worship: The Logic of the Lord's Supper in Cranmer's Common Prayer A Paper by the Revd Fr Gavin Dunbar President of the Prayer Book Society In this paper (attached) Fr. Dunbar addresses the "order of the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion" as it is found chiefly in the Prayer Books of 1552, 1559, and 1662, and specially its logic or rationale. He notes that among modern liturgists this logic has been found deficient but argues … [Read more...]