An Outline Of Christian Worship - Its Development And Forms (Paperback)

AN OU F C H R I S T I A N WORSHIP ITS DEVELOPMENT AND FORMS BY WILLIAM D. MAXWELL, B. D., PH. D. MINISTER OF BILLHEAD PARISH, GLASGOW Author of John Knoxs Genevan Service Book OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON HUMPHREY MILFORD 1936 PATRI OPTIMO PRO PIETATE FILIVS OBSERVANTISSIMVS DEDICAVIT PREFACE book is an attempt to give a concise outline of JL Christian worship and the forms it has taken from earliest times to the present. The aim has been practical, directed towards the clear delineation of basic facts and principles at a time when a quickened interest in worship is manifest throughout all communions of the Church. A large proportion of the space is devoted to the worship of the Reformed Churches, particularly to the early liturgies of these Churches. This has been necessary because of the strange neglect shown towards these liturgies by British scholars, resulting in widespread misunderstanding of a most important period. Public worship as here treated is restricted to the Sunday Morning worship of the Church, and that which has grown out of the Quire Offices. A work such as this, to be of value, requires documenta tion, but it has seemed to me to be of first importance that this should be as unobtrusive as possible. Instead, there fore, of quoting works in the footnotes, numbers are used which refer to the bibliography given at the end, the roman numerals referring to the section and the arabic numerals to the particular work. If a text or compilation is referred to, the roman numeral is replaced by the word Text 3 . The bibliography, though limited in the interests of economy and simplicity, will suffice to direct the reader to the principal liturgical texts and to such standardworks as will, in their turn, open up the literature of the subject in all its branches. My thanks are due in especial to the Reverend W. Napier Bell, M. A., for many wise and helpful suggestions, and for valuable assistance in reading both script and proof also to the Reverend Millar Patrick, D. D., and the Reverend W. M c Millan, Ph. D., D. D., for their advice and criticism, as also to Mr. J. C. Meikle, of the Oxford Press, for his great kindness in compiling the Index. W. D. M. CONTENTS I. PRIMITIVE WORSHIP ORIGINS AND GROWTH i i. Origins . . . . . .1 2. The Kiddush and the Last Supper . . 5 3. The Sub-Apostolic Age ... .7 4. The Second Century . . . .11 5. The Third and Fourth Centuries . . 14 6. The Church Order of Hippolytus Third Century 21 II. LITURGICAL FORMS IN THE EAST . . 26 i. The So-called Clementine Liturgy, contained in Book VI 1 1 of the Apostolic Constitutions, c. A. D . 3 So 26 2. Kindred Eastern Rites of the Fifth and Sixth Cen turies . . . . . .34 3 . Developments in Ritual and Ceremonial in the East after the Fourth Century . . - 37 III. LITURGICAL FORMS IN THE WEST . . 44 i. The Gallican Rites . . . .46 2. The Roman Rite . . . . - 54 IV. LITURGICAL FORMS IN THE CHURCHES OF THE REFORMATION . . . . 72 i. The Lutheran Rites . . . - 73 2. The Zwinglian Rites ., . .81 3. The German Rites of Strasbourg . . 87 4. Calvins French Rites at Strasbourg and Geneva . 112 5 . The Reformed Rites and their Successors in Scotland 1 20 6. The Reformed Rites and their Successors in England 136 7. The English Rite in the Book of Common Prayer . 144 8. The Liturgy in the Scottish Book of Common Prayer 154 9. Some Modern Liturgies The Old Catholic, The Catholic Apostolic, The UnitedChurch of Canada 159 V. THE CHRISTIAN CYCLE OF PRAYER . .163 i. The Quire Offices and their Modern Developments 163 2. The Christian Year . . . .170 3. Some Forms of Prayer . . . 173 BILBIOGRAPHY . . . . . .183 INDEX . ..... 195 PRIMITIVE WORSHIP ITS ORIGINS AND GROWTH 77 ORSHIP consists of our words and actions, the out-W ward expression of our homage and adoration, when we are assembled in the presence of God...