Joint Liturgical Studies
Joint Liturgical Studies offers a valuable contribution to the
study of liturgy. Each issue considers a particular aspect of
liturgical development, such as the origins of the Roman rite,
Anglican Orders, welcoming the Baptised, and Anglican Missals. It
is aimed at all with an academic interest in worship.
It is published twice a year in partnership with the Alcuin
Club, which promotes the study of Christian liturgy, and the Group
for Renewal of Worship (GROW).
Volume 87/88: The Church of England Eucharist
1958-2012
Colin Buchanan and Trevor Lloyd
From 1662 to 1966 the Church of England's sole eucharistic rite
was the communion service within the Book of Common Prayer imposed
by the Act of Uniformity of 1662. With the coming of procedures
whereby alternative rites could be authorized, the last 60 years
have seen enormous labours and debates within the Liturgical
Commission, the House of Bishops, the General Synod and its
Revision Committees. Tudor language has given way to contemporary
forms, and these forms in turn have in turn been made inclusive.
Traditional language texts have continued alongside the
contemporary ones. The rites have been brought to a new 'shape',
congregational participation has been vastly increased, the range
of options within the rites has been greatly extended, and
provision has been made for celebrations when children are
present.
The processes by which these changes came about are patiently
laid out here by two Anglican liturgists who have themselves lived
for over 50 years within those processes. They chart the different
rounds of Commission creativity, synodical assimilation, and
experimental use; they explain theological tensions that emerged on
the way and show how they were resolved; and they give firsthand
colour to it all, not only by drawing upon the Church of England's
primary sources, but also by use of their own memoranda and
memories. The complexity of the whole story has meant that the
Joint Editorial Board has, for the convenience of the readers,
allocated both the Studies due in 2019 to be published here as a
single double-size volume.
The two authors have been colleagues with each other for 60
years. Colin Buchanan was on the Liturgical Commission from 1964 to
1986; Trevor Lloyd from 1980 to 2002. They have both been members
of GROW from 1964, and have been two of the GROW representatives on
the Alcuin/GROW Joint Editorial Board since its inauguration in
1986, and Colin Buchanan chairs the Board. Both have written
extensively on liturgical revision as it has developed in those
years, and they have shared together in editing Anglican Worship
Today (1980) and in sponsoring Common Worship Today (2001). They
have been keen to write an account of this sort while they, as
actual participants, are still alive, and are glad, when both are
in their 80s, now to have had the opportunity.
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