May 15, 2023
by John Fonville
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Category:
Liturgy
| Tags: worship, Prayer, Thomas Cranmer, Book of Common Prayer, Protestant Reformation, Reformation liturgies, praying, prewritten prayer, spontaneous prayer, Liturgy
Why Use Written Prayers?- Why does your church use prewritten prayers in your service? Isn't this a dry, rote, unthinking, way for the church to pray and worship? Don't pre-written prayers stifle the Spirit and hinder freedom and promote mechanical, vain repetition? Aren't spontaneous prayers more genuine and heartfelt than prewritten prayers? ...
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August 20, 2022
by John Fonville
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Category:
Liturgy
| Tags: gospel, worship, martin luther, Liturgy, German Mass 1526, Protestant Reformation, liturgical reformation, Word and Sacrament
Martin Luther's primary concern when constructing the German mass and order of the liturgy in 1526 was that the gospel be proclaimed for the people in their context....
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October 31, 2021
by John Fonville
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Category:
Liturgy
| Tags: gospel, worship, Prayer, divine service, J.I. Packer, 1662 Book of Common Prayer, Reformation liturgy
The Gospel in the Prayer Book- Collected short writings by J. I. Packer on The 1662 Book of Common Prayer....
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October 25, 2021
by John Fonville
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Category:
Liturgy
| Tags: Holy Communion, confession of sin, confession of sins, general confession, Reformation Anglicanism, 1552 Book of Common Prayer, 1662 Book of Common Prayer, Morning & Evening Prayer, divine service, auricular confession, priestly absolution, Liturgy
From 1552 onward, the striking thing about the daily services [in the Book of Common Prayer) was the prominent place given to the general confession of sins in corporate worship....
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October 5, 2021
by John Fonville
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Category:
Liturgy
| Tags: Liturgist, Liturgy, Reformation Anglicanism, Protestant Reformation, Thomas Cranmer, public reading of Scripture, Protestant Reformers, English Reformation, Reformation Sunday
A distinctive feature of Thomas Cranmer's reforms of the worship of the English church was the prominent place he gave to the extensive reading of Scripture. ...
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September 16, 2021
by John Fonville
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Category:
Liturgy
| Tags: worship, Book of Common Prayer, Thomas Cranmer, Liturgy, Anglican piety, Reformation Sunday, Protestant Reformation, opus Dei (God's Work), Gratitude, grace
Thomas Cranmer's Revolution in Worship: Grace and Gratitude...
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September 16, 2021
by John Fonville
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Category:
Liturgy
| Tags: Thomas Cranmer, Reformation, Liturgy, lex orandi lex credendi, Reformation Anglican Worship, Reformation Anglican, lex credendi lex orandi
Thomas Cranmer was a theological liturgist, which means the Reformer possessed a set of theological convictions that he hoped to express through his liturgy. These theological convictions were a clear step away from the worship of the medieval Catholic Church and the theological convictions that it represented....
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