The 19th-century Liturgical Revival

The 'facts' do not change, but the lenses we choose to examine them through and evaluate them do. This lecture attempts to explore the changes through the lenses of evolution and devotion, paying particular attention to the part played by the Church Service Society and suggest one of its continuing roles in the contemporary Church.

SPARK Festival of Worship and the Arts – a lecture to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Church Service Society. Sesquicentennial Lecture given by the distinguished liturgical scholar and former President of the Society, the Rev Professor Bryan D. Spinks, Bishop Percy Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology, Yale Divinity School and Yale Institute of Sacred Music. ‘The nineteenth century liturgical revival: evolution and devolution of worship in the Kirk’.

The story of the liturgical revival in the Church of Scotland and the other Scottish Presbyterian bodies has been told often enough.

The 'facts' do not change, but the lenses we choose to examine them through and evaluate them do. This lecture attempts to explore the changes through the lenses of evolution and devotion, paying particular attention to the part played by the Church Service Society and suggest one of its continuing roles in the contemporary Church.