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Liturgical revision in the Episcopal Church: Can a thousand flowers bloom?
This one day Colloquium will explore the implications of the mandate from the Episcopal General Convention of 2015 in Resolution A169 directing the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music (SCLM) to prepare a plan for the comprehensive revision of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer ready for the next General Convention in 2018.
The Commission has already announced that it will request that the General Convention 2018 selectone of four options, namely:
1.A full and comprehensive revision of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer
2.Creation of a comprehensive Book(s) of Alternative Services, and leaving the present BCP 1979 unchanged
3.More research, talking, listening, and discerning as to whether revision is desirable
4.Step back from revision and deepen our relationship with current liturgies the 1979 BCP
Or as a further alternative
5.of choosing some combination of pathways 2, 3, or 4 while also developing technical fixes to the 1979 Book of Common Prayer which would be adjustments in grammar, punctuation, and word choice that do not change the theology, poetry, or intended meaning of the text. (for example: in Eucharistic Prayer C changing you made us therulersof creation to you made us thestewardsof creation or adding the word matriarchs along with the patriarchs).
The presenters will examine what these options could mean in practical terms on the one hand and what principles should inform an authentically Anglican-Episcopal approach to Liturgy on the other, bearing in mind the central role of the Prayer Book tradition since the inception of Anglicanism.
The principle speakers will be
Dr. Jesse Billett, Professor of Liturgy at Trinity College Toronto University, and the Trinity School of Theology in Toronto, under the heading The Mysterium Anglicanum and the New Puritans will argue that the original basis upon which modern reforms of the liturgy were advanced have been found wanting in the light of subsequent research and must now be defended on scriptural, theological and aesthetic grounds and these can warrant no threat to the earlier Prayer Book tradition.
The Revd. Canon Victor Austin, Theologian in Residence in the Diocese of Dallas, based at the Church of the Incarnation, will explore the Authority in Anglicanism and the role of the Prayer Book within this
The Revd. Fr Gavin Dunbar,President of the Prayer Book Society of the USA and Rector of St. Johns Church Savannah, will discuss the principles behind the earliest Anglican Books of Common Prayer and their continuing relevance and resilience regarding the challenge of revision.
The Revd. Canon Jordan Hylden, Canon Theologian of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas, will explore the specific case of recent proposed revisions to the rite of Marriage
Others participating will includeThe Revd. Canon Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff (International Advisor to the PBS) will also be participating, along with Prayer Book Society Board members Bill Murchison (from Incarnation) and Dean William McKeachie (from St Andrews Fort Worth).
The event will include a sandwich luncheon.
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LocationThe Church of the Incarnation, Dallas (View)
3966 McKinney Ave,
Dallas, TX 75204
United States
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