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The renaissance of public worship in the church of Scotland, 1865–1905

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

John M. Barkley
John M. Barkley*
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The Presbyterian CollegeBelfast
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Extract

On his way to one of the early meetings of the church service society, Story met Charteris on the street, who asked what were their aims. He replied, ‘To restore the ring in marriage, the cross in baptism, and the denial of the cup to the laity’. Charteris fled in horror.

Before discussing the renaissance of public worship in the church of Scotland it is necessary to look at the background. The lineage of reformed worship can be traced from Diebold Schwarz’s translation of the Hagenau Missal into German in 1524 through Bucer and Calvin, both of whom desired weekly communion, to the Scottish Book of Common Order (1564). When the civil authorities forbade weekly communion, Bucer and Calvin did not prepare an order of service for Sunday morning, but rubricated the order for communion as to how it should end when there was no celebration of the supper: that is, the eucharist was the norm for public worship.

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Research Article
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Studies in Church History , Volume 14: Renaissance and Renewal in Christian History , 1977 , pp. 339 - 350
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1977

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1 J. Cameron Lees to John Kerr 31 January 1907.

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11 Marshall Lang to John Kerr 7 April 1905.

12 C of S Church Praise p 45.

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18 Ibid pp 74-83.

19 Euchologion (1867) pp 42-3.

20 Ibid p 45.

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31 This is a summary so not always verbatim. For actual text see Kerr Renascence pp 95-7.

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