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On the Liturgy

Will Nielsen

February 12th, 2008

Tags: Anglicanism (Episcopalianism) • Christian Traditions • Liturgy

Our rites have tended to domesticate God within the images of Western culture projected into the heavenly places. Liturgy is most authentic when it is experienced as awestruck praise, the creature standing at the threshold of the Holy. … Annie Dillard has summed up the point, saying, ‘I often think of the set pieces of liturgy as certain words which people have successfully addressed to God without their getting killed.’

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Weil, Louis. “The Gospel in Anglicanism.” The Study of Anglicanism. Stephen Sykes et al. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004), 62-3.

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