Scottish Presbyterian Worship

Bryan D. Spinks

Description

This seminal work by one of the world’s most distinguished liturgical scholars 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.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Christian Practice
• Christian Rituals
• Philosophie et théologie
• Liturgy
• Worship

Informations

• Publié par: Hymns Ancient & Modern
• Date de parution: 30 septembre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781800830028
• Langue: English

Extrait

Scottish Presbyterian Worship
Proposals for Organic Change, 1843 to the Present Day
Bryan D. Spinks
Bishop F. Percy Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology, Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School






First published in 2020 by
SAINT ANDREW PRESS
121 George Street
Edinburgh EH2 4YN
Copyright © Bryan Spinks
ISBN 978 1 8008 3000 4
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent.
The right of Bryan Spinks to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Design, Copyright and Patents Act 1988.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Extracts of Morning Liturgy A and Liturgy for Holy Communion A, from A Wee Worship Book , Fourth Incarnation. Copyright © 1999 WGRG, c/o Iona Community, Glasgow, Scotland. Reproduced by permission. www.wildgoose.scot
Extract of Morning Service Opening Responses, from Iona Community Worship Book , 1984 edition. Copyright © 1984 Iona Community, Glasgow, Scotland. Reproduced by permission.
Typeset by Regent Typesetting Ltd
Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by CPI Group (UK) Ltd




To
the Revd Dr Douglas Galbraith
and in memory of the Revd Tom Davidson Kelly,
my fellow Presbyters in the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church who contributed so much to this work.





Opponent and overseers of change

James Veitch (see Introduction and Chapter 2)


Oswald Milligan (see Chapter 8)


Charles Robertson (see Chapter 10)


High cross at Iona Abbey



Contents
Preface
Biographical Note
List of Photographs
Introduction

1. Inherited Patterns of Public Prayer and the ‘Specimens of the Various Services of Presbyterian Worship’
2. Liturgical Disruption: Dr Robert Lee of Greyfriars Edinburgh
3. The Church Service Society and the Euchologion
4. Nineteenth-Century Public Worship Provisions in the United Presbyterian Church, the Free Church of Scotland, and a Communion Service of the Free Presbyterian Church
5. Worship’s Companions: The Playing of the Merry Organ, Hymns, and Sweet Singing in the Choir
6. Worship and the High Church Party: The So-called Scoto-Catholics and the Scottish Church Society
7. Integrating Some of the Pieces: Culture, Ecclesiology, Architecture and Case Studies
8. Forms of Worship between Two Unions and Two World Wars 1900–40
9. The Ecumenical and Liturgical Movements and the ‘Last years of Modernity’: 1940–79
10. Into Postmodernity
11. Some Final Thoughts and Reflections

Appendix: The Chapel Royal in Scotland, by Iain R. Torrance
Bibliography




Preface
On various occasions over the last five years I have been asked: ‘Why should a priest of the Church of England who hails from East Anglia, and who now teaches liturgy at an American university, choose to write a book on Scottish Presbyterian worship?’
I am indebted to Scotland for my present family name. Until the birth of my grandfather, George Edward Spinks, the family surname was Spink. It is an Anglo-Saxon surname (fink/finch/small bird) and in the 1800s my ancestors were living in Aylsham, Norfolk. My great grandparents moved from East Anglia to Inverness, Scotland, and lived there for about two years before returning south to Wethersfield, Essex. My grandfather was born in Inverness in 1896, and the registrar added an ‘s’ to his surname, and so my branch of the family became Spinks. Other than that, I can claim no Scottish family ancestry. It is my theological autobiography, though, that explains the connection.
During my undergraduate and initial graduate studies at Durham University, I read Karl Barth on Romans, and then much of his Church Dogmatics . From there I ventured into Calvin’s Institutes . These brought me back from the extreme liberalism that I had embraced in rebellion against what I regarded as the intolerant Anglo-Catholicism of some of my fellow students at St Chad’s College, Durham. A passion for liturgical study, inculcated and encouraged by A. H. Couratin, meshed with interest in Neo-Orthodoxy, and so my initial extended postgraduate research for the Durham University BD (at Cambridge, Oxford and Durham the BD ranked above PhD, but has been discontinued at Oxford and Durham), published as two books, was on English Reformed liturgy. This work entailed looking at the Genevan Form of Prayers , John Knox’s liturgy for Berwick, and the Westminster Directory . In subsequent published work I have covered Scottish sacramental theology and liturgy from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and some aspects of nineteenth-century Scottish worship. I was also co-editor of the Scottish Journal of Theology , 1998–2015. My answer to the question is, therefore, ‘Why not?’
In 1995–6, the Church Service Society of the Church of Scotland did me the honour of electing me as vice-president and then president of the Society – the first non-Presbyterian and the only Anglican until now to be elected to this post. 2015 was the 150th anniversary of the Society, and the Council once more honoured me with an invitation to deliver the lecture at New College, Edinburgh. As I worked on the lecture, ‘The Nineteenth Century Liturgical Revival: Evolution and Devolution of Worship in the Kirk’ ( The Record 50 (2015), pp. 2–22), I realised that although aspects of nineteenth-century Scottish Presbyterian worship had been the subject of PhD theses, the nineteenth century to the present had hitherto been covered only in short summarising essays. In this book I hope to have told a deeper narrative.
As someone living outside Scotland and having no experiential knowledge of any of the Presbyterian Churches, this book could not have been written without the constant help and support of many institutions and individuals. A generous grant from the Conant Fund of the Episcopal Church of the USA allowed me to spend several weeks in Scotland, and to have access to the libraries of Edinburgh and the archives in the basement of the Church of Scotland at 121 George Street. I was given access to the library and archives of the Church Service Society, spending many hours with the latter at Canongate Church offices, as well as to the collection of service books held by St Giles’s Cathedral. My wife Care and I were welcomed to services at Iona Abbey, and in the Free Church of Scotland and High Church of the Church of Scotland, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, where Care was given permission to take photographs during the services. I thank them for those permissions given back in 2015, and my thanks to Care for her support in this venture and for some of the photographs in this book. Librarians and archivists of the Church of Scotland and Free Church of Scotland have generously provided me with official reports and other crucial documents. I would like to express my thanks to my research assistants over five years – Isaac Johnson, Patrick Keyser, Rosemary Williams and Mark Florig, who have checked my quotations and helped make some sentences more intelligible, and to Jenny Smith for Bulletins and the photo of Communion at the London City Presbyterian Church. I am grateful to the Revd James Stewart for drawing my attention to the worship services of William Logie, and for providing me with his collection of service bulletins from the 1970s. My thanks to the Revd John Bell, the Revd John Philip Newell, the Revd Dr Wayne Pearce, the Revd Charles Robertson, the Revd Dr Scott McKenna and the Very Revd Iain Torrance for conversations and suggestions, and to Iain for contributing the Appendix on the Chapel Royal. The work would have been totally impossible without the generous and constant assistance given to me by the former secretary of the Church Service Society, the Revd Dr Douglas Galbraith, and the late Revd Tom Davidson Kelly. Omissions, errors and misinterpretations are entirely my own.
I would like to thank the Alcuin Club and Saint Andrew Press for undertaking to publish the results of the study.
Bryan D. Spinks
Feast of the St Mark the Evangelist 2020



Biographical Note
Bryan D. Spinks, DD, FRHistS, is Bishop F. Percy Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Yale Divinity School and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. A priest of the Church of England, and author and editor of over twenty books, his most recent publications are Do This in Remembrance of Me: The Eucharist from the Early Church to the Present Day (SCM Press, 2013) and The Rise and Fall of the Incomparable Liturgy: The Book of Common Prayer 1559-1906 (SPCK, 2017). He co-edited with Teresa Berger The Spirit in Worship – Worship in the Spirit (Liturgical Press, 2009) and Liturgy’s Imagined Past/s: Methodologies and Material in the Writing of Liturgical History Today (Liturgical Press, 2016). Professor Spinks has previously served as chaplain at Churchill College, Cambridge, as president of the Society for Oriental Liturgy, co-editor of the Scottish Journal of Theology , a member of and consultant to the Church of England Liturgical Commission, and is president emeritus of the Church Service Society of the Church of Scotland.



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