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Lent 2008 - Cathedral Lectures

Lecture One

Recovering Holy Week in Liturgy and Theology

  • The early centuries (pre Constantine)
    • 2 annual feasts: ‘Easter’ and Pentecost
    • Cross and resurrection combined ‘Christus Victor’
    • Baptismal focus with catechumenate
    • Few church buildings
  • The impact of Constantinian change
    • Fading of catechumenate and loss of baptismal focus
    • Building of churches
    • Growth of calendar, esp the historicisation of Holy Week
  • The Medieval package
  • The Reformation in England
    • Pruning? Hacking back Liturgy and sacramentals and environment for liturgy
    • Effective loss of Holy Week
    • Gospel focus restored but its liturgical/sacramental expression impoverished
  • 19th & 20th Century recovery of Holy Week in Anglican Church
    • Oxford Movement and Anglo-Catholic Revival: sacraments, sacramentals and liturgy
    • Liturgical Movement
    • Ecumenical Movement: Churches converge
  • The evolution of the Cross/Crucifix
    • The early reluctance to use the Cross
    • The first crucifixes – Christus Rex
    • Change in atonement models and emphasis on sacred humanity of Jesus
    • Realistic suffering Christ
    • Paradox of theological overemphasis on Cross without Resurrection coupled with dodging Good Friday and focus on Easter
  • The evolution of the Baptistery/font in the light of all this


Lecture Two

O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness

Ritualism and the Arts in Anglican worship: 1837-1901

  • Recap on Lecture One esp 19th & 20th Century recovery of Holy Week
  • Queen Victoria’s Requiem Mass at St Matthew’s, Westminster, 1901
  • St Mary & St Nicholas: John Henry Newman’s Chapel at Littlemore,

Oxfordshire, 1836

  • The Gothic Revival and the Catholic Revival
  • Correct Arrangement: The Ecclesiologists at Large
  • Church Furnishings and Church Plate
  • The Choral Revival in the Anglican Church
  • Stained Glass
  • Ritualism: The Choreography of the Eucharist (The Dance of the Mass)
  • Pre-Raphaelitism and Early Christian Art
  • The Protestant Backlash
  • The Ornaments Rubric
  • Vestments
  • Flowers
  • The Church’s Year
  • Directorium Anglicanum
  • [William] Morris & Co
  • Ritual Martyrs
  • The Work of Art Embracing All the Arts
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