For a longer explanation and defense of liturgical worship, read this old chestnut. Whenever we see how the people of God worshipped in the Old Testament, it was always liturgically. God commands in the Law that the sacrificial worship in the Temple should be highly prescribed and arranged, and gives specific instructions for how it …
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For Anglican Ministers, Teaching the Word Must Come First
As Anglicans, our focus on the importance and centrality of the Eucharist can often distract us from remembering that for Thomas Cranmer and the other key architects of Anglicanism, Scripture was paramount. The Eucharist is only salvific if it is received by faith in the heart of a believer whose faith is rooted in Scripture. …
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How the Anglican Eucharist is Sacrificial
The Anglican understanding of the Eucharistic sacrifice is both Protestant and Patristic, as this article will endeavour to show. The Anglican liturgy found in the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) understands the Eucharist to be an oblation or offering only in the sense that through it we offer to the Father a "sacrifice of praise …
Incarnation and Atonement in the Earliest Eucharistic Liturgies of the Church
This is an academic essay I wrote for a course at Laidlaw College, New Zealand. It analyses how the incarnation of Christ and his atoning work are linked together in the four earliest liturgies of the Church and how those liturgies express the Eucharist to be the means by which Christ's atoning work is applied. …
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Why Worship Liturgically?
Please note: Some of what is argued and/or implied by this article may no longer be held by the author, for an updated summary of his current positions, see the Beliefs page. The word ‘Liturgy’ comes from a Greek word meaning ‘work of the people’ (this is also why church gatherings are often called a …
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