Series statement taken from Alcuin Club website. "A co-publication with the Alcuin Club"--Page 4 of cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index.
Contents:
Inherited patterns of public prayer and the 'specimens of the various services of Presbyterian worship' -- Liturgical disruption: Dr Robert Lee of Greyfriars Edinburgh -- The Church Service Society and the Euchologion -- Nineteenth-century public worship provisions in the United Presbyterian Church, the Free Church of Scotland, and a communion service of the Free Presbyterian Church -- Worship's companions: the playing of the merry organ, hymns, and sweet singing in the choir -- Worship and the High Church party: the so-called Scoto-Catholics and the Scottish Church Society -- Integrating some of the pieces: culture, ecclesiology, architecture and case studies -- Forms of worship between two unions and two world wars 1900-40 -- The ecumenical and liturgical movements and the 'last years of modernity': 1940-79 -- Into postmodernity -- Some final thoughts and reflections
Summary:
"This work fills an important gap in the history of the Church of Scotland and of Scottish worship. It offers an in-depth narrative of a neglected liturgical legacy and a perceptive analysis of the Church's evolving patterns of worship from the middle of the 19th century to the present day" --Book cover.
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