Title: Language in worship; reflections on a crisis
Authors: Stevick, Daniel B.
Publisher: Seabury Press
Year: 1970
Subjects: Public worship.; Prayer Christianity; Language and languages Religious aspects Christianity
Contents: 1. New words, new prayers, new problems -- Language, reality, worship -- Modernizing language in worship -- New forms -- new problems -- 2. A tradition of excellence -- The English language in the sixteenth century -- The prayer book and its characteristics -- The acceptance of prayer book style -- A crisis for prayer book style -- 3. The problem of payer and God -- The crises of theology and culture -- The difficulty of belief in a transcendent God -- Prayer and images of transcendence -- 4. Evaluating inherited images -- Four ways of dealing with inherited images -- These four strategies and images of transcendence -- 5. The problem of prayer and man -- The church's prayers and the human condition -- The church's prayers and human competence -- Images of power -- 6. The relevance of prayer models -- Examining our inherited models -- The originality of Christian prayer -- 7. Some forms of Christian prayer -- The challenge of free prayer -- The challenge of silence -- A distinction: corporate and private norms -- The various forms of prayer -- 8. Modernity and the style of liturgy -- The context of English prose -- The character of the modern -- Prayer and contemporaneity -- Vernacular prayer today -- 9. Words to some purpose -- Religion and religious style -- A style of liturgy.