TY - CHAP
T1 - Worship and sacraments
AU - Hardman Moore, Susan
PY - 2020/5/29
Y1 - 2020/5/29
N2 - To understand the ethos of worship and sacraments evident in Dissenting traditions by 1689, the hinterland is important. From the 1540s, some Protestants wanted reform of the Book of Common Prayer while others wanted to abandon it altogether. Early debates about change intensified into hostility to all ‘set prayer’, in reaction to Laud’s liturgical policies of the 1630s. This stamped a particular character on the Westminster Assembly’s Directory for the Publique Worship of God (1645). Its free-but-ordered style took English Dissenting traditions down a distinctive path. In terms of culture, Dissenting worship was not a sensory desert (as is often assumed), but used the senses—and imagery that drew on the senses—to cultivate an intensity of experience within the outward aesthetic of simplicity. As Bunyan pictured it in Holy War, the only way to capture Heart Castle was by storming Ear-gate, Eye-gate, Mouth-gate, Nose-gate, and Feel-gate.
AB - To understand the ethos of worship and sacraments evident in Dissenting traditions by 1689, the hinterland is important. From the 1540s, some Protestants wanted reform of the Book of Common Prayer while others wanted to abandon it altogether. Early debates about change intensified into hostility to all ‘set prayer’, in reaction to Laud’s liturgical policies of the 1630s. This stamped a particular character on the Westminster Assembly’s Directory for the Publique Worship of God (1645). Its free-but-ordered style took English Dissenting traditions down a distinctive path. In terms of culture, Dissenting worship was not a sensory desert (as is often assumed), but used the senses—and imagery that drew on the senses—to cultivate an intensity of experience within the outward aesthetic of simplicity. As Bunyan pictured it in Holy War, the only way to capture Heart Castle was by storming Ear-gate, Eye-gate, Mouth-gate, Nose-gate, and Feel-gate.
KW - worship
KW - sacraments
KW - Book of Common Prayer
KW - Westminster Directory
KW - Dissenting religious experience
UR - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-history-of-protestant-dissenting-traditions-volume-i-9780198702238
U2 - 10.1093/oso/9780198702238.003.0019
DO - 10.1093/oso/9780198702238.003.0019
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9780198702238
T3 - The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions
SP - 409
EP - 434
BT - The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I
A2 - Coffey, John
PB - Oxford University Press
ER -