The article deals with some projects of liturgical reform in England created in 1828-1833. It analyzes goals, proposals and arguments of the "reformers". The authors of the projects aimed to join dissenters to the state Church and to diminish popular anticlericalism. They believed it necessary to make liturgy less weary, more intelligible, instructive and edifying, as well as politically neutral. The pamphleteers actively appealed to history, e.g. to the history of the Reformation, "the Liturgy of Comprehension" (1689), and the Episcopal Church in the USA. They thought that the contemporary "Age of Reform" was quite appropriate for making changes in the Church.
Key words: Anglicanism, Church of England, Book of Common Prayer, liturgy, church reform, liturgical reform.
The LITURGICAL reform is one of the most topical topics of English journalism in 1828-1833. In the Church of England (as opposed to the Orthodox Church), "liturgy" means not only the divine service during which the Eucharist is celebrated, but also any other church services, as well as the texts according to which they are performed.1 Therefore, the term "liturgical reform" meant a revision of the entire content of the" Book of Common Prayer " - a collection,
1. Hefing, Ch., Shattuck, C. (eds) (2006) The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey, p. 581. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Petrova T. [Projects of the Liturgical Reform in English Journalism in 1828-1833]. Gosudarstvo, religiya, tserkva v Rossii i za rubezhom [State, Religion, Church in Russia and Abroad]. 2016. N 4. pp. 174-193.
Petrova, Tatiana (2016) "Liturgical Reform in English Pamphlets and Tracts, 1828-1833", Gosudarstvo, religiia, tserkov' v Rossii i za rubezhom 34(4): 174-193.
page 174which included all the liturgical texts of the Church of England. The "Book of Common Prayers", along with the"39 Articles "2 and the"Ordinal" 3, is the main source of official doctrine, so the issue of revising the liturgy w ...
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