ABSTRACT

This book explores the epiclesis or invocation of the Holy Spirit in the Eucharistic Prayer, using the Anglican tradition as an historical model of a communion of churches in conscious theological and liturgical dialogue with Christian antiquity. Incorporating major studies of England, North America and the Indian sub-Continent, the author includes an exposition of Inter-Church ecumenical dialogue and the historic divisions between western and eastern Eucharistic traditions and twentieth-century ecumenical endeavour. This unique study of the relationship between theology and liturgical text, commends a theology and spirituality which celebrates the presence of the Holy Spirit in the Eucharist as present and eschatological gift. It thus sets historic, contemporary and ecumenical divisions in a new theological context.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter |10 pages

The Reformation Heritage

chapter |34 pages

Scripture and Tradition

Post-Reformation Exploration in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

chapter |26 pages

Anglican Diversification

chapter |16 pages

Ecumenical Exploration

chapter |37 pages

The 1928 Prayer Book

‘Eastern' or ‘Western’ Identity?

chapter |26 pages

The Anglican Communion

Case Study 1: The Episcopal Church in the USA and the Anglican Church of Canada

chapter |22 pages

The Anglican Communion

Case Study 2: The Churches of the Indian Subcontinent

chapter |30 pages

The Epiclesis

The Spiritual Dynamics of Sacramentalism