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The Magazine of the Prayer Book Society ANGLICAN WAY The magazine of the Prayer Book Society Volume 40 Number 1 Winter 2017 IN THIS ISSUE Reflections from 2 the Editor’s Desk From the President: 3 Incarnation and Image The New and Old 5 Learning and the Reformation in England Society Outreach in the 8 Anglican Province of Tanzania Christian Marriage in 10 the Book of Common Prayer (1662) Obergefell and the End 13 of Marriage Finding Pipe 16 Organs for Small Congregations Evelyn Underhill and 17 the BCP 20 Germany Retrospective 22 An Epiphany Sermon Reflections FROM THE Editor’s Desk Roberta Bayer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Patrick Henry College, Purcellville, Virginia We need your n this issue Fr. Edward Rix, Vice-President of the I have included a seasonal sermon by Fr. William gifts in order to Prayer Book Society writes about his missionary Martin, a former member of our board and priest trip to Tanzania on our behalf. He gave a sermon in the Anglican Province of America. Finally, Jared carry out your Ion marriage at a youth conference, the text of which Tomlinson has sent a report on the recent trip to mandate to is reprinted here, and had many interesting conver- Germany by the choir of St. Andrew’s Academy in defend the sations with bishops and other church leaders. Dur- Lake Almanor, California. St. Andrew’s is a boarding ing one conversation, Fr. Rix learned of their need school in the Anglican tradition. The school worships 1928 Book of for more copies of the 1954 Kiswahili Book of Com- with the traditional Book of Common Prayer and is Common Prayer. mon Prayer. As a result, the PBS is now engaged in a associated with the Reformed Episcopal Church. The You may send new project, which is to re-print copies of the 1954 headmaster, Fr. Brian Foos is a former member of Kiswahili Book of Common Prayer for Tanzanians the PBS Board. St. Andrew’s raises money by selling a contribution who cannot afford to re-print copies themselves. It their Anglican Ordo Calendar according to the BCP in the enclosed is estimated that we probably need to raise close to 1928. You can order this calendar from Whithorn envelope. $15,000 to do this. If you can help, please do! Send Press at P.O. Box 3050, Chester/Lake Almanor, CA cheques to the Prayer Book Society, and indicate that 96020 (530-596-3343) or by contacting them at Please give this money is for Kiswahili Prayer Books. [email protected]. Dr. Eric Enlow, Dean and Professor of Law at The Anglican Parish of Christ the King (APCK) generously. Handong International Law School offers an analy- in Georgetown, DC, is seeking a new rector. It is a sis of the state of marriage in law after the Obergefell church that I know well. The location is excellent— decision. Dr. Enlow points out that the Obergefell deci- it stands in historic Georgetown, and the building is Please read our two sion effectively abolished legal marriage, as historically charming—white washed with clear windows. The websites: pbsusa.org understood in continuity with Christian teaching. He building is also of historic significance as it was once and anglicanway concludes with some reflections about the new situation. a hideaway for escaped slaves on the Underground magazine.com I reflect briefly upon the literary culture of Eng- Railroad. Best of all, it employs an excellent organ- Please contact land at the time of the Reformation, and my son, Peter ist who plays a small, but pleasant sounding tracker Dr. Bayer at who is an organist, offers advice to small congrega- organ. The congregation is few in number and elderly, [email protected] in tions looking for a suitable and affordable organ. The as in so many continuing churches, but those who order to discontinue Rt. Rev. Council Nedd II, of the Episcopal Mission- attend are faithful to traditional worship. The major ary Church reflects upon the book Worship by Evelyn drawback is the small salary. One might perhaps receiving Anglican Way Underhill, and summarizes her views upon the BCP. look upon it as a fellowship, providing extra income magazine. Or send a Underhill was a respected spiritual director among if attending graduate school in DC, or a supplement note to the PBS using Anglo-Catholics, and author of a famous book on to another income. Please check the advertisement the coupon on the mysticism during the first half of the 20th century. in this issue. last page. Anglican Way Volume 40, Number 1, Winter 2017 Editor: Dr. Roberta Bayer • Design/Layout: Electronic Quill The Officers for the Year 2016 are: President: The Rev. Gavin Dunbar • Vice President: The Rev. Fr. Edward Rix Treasurer: Patti Victor • Secretary: Gordon Anderson PBS Board Advisor: Canon Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff Anglican Way is published up to four times a year by the Prayer Book Society, a non-profit organization serving the Church of God. All gifts to the P.B.S. are tax deductible for U.S. citizens. Cover: Coppo di Marcovaldo, Crucifix, Editorial and all other correspondence: 1 West Macon Street, Savannah, GA 31401 • Phone 1-703-349-1346 c. 1260, Tempera on panel, Postmaster: Please send address changes to the above address. San Gimignano, Visit our websites: www.pbsusa.org • www.anglicanmarketplace.com • www.anglicanwaymagazine.com Pinacoteca Civica. 2 THE MAGAZINE OF THE PRAYER BOOK SOCIETY FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE PRAYER BOOK SOCIETY The Reverend G. G. Dunbar, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Savannah, Georgia Incarnation and Image n Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English Peo- rediscovered under whitewash, and the occasional The Rev. Gavin G. ple, he records the first meeting of St. Augustine sculpture too remote to reach. But it was in the Prot- Dunbar, President, of Canterbury and his company with the pagan estant soul that the tradition of the sacred image was Prayer Book Society, IEnglish king of Kent and his court about the year renounced. and Rector, St John’s 597 A.D. King Aethelbert “took care that they should Though Protestant and post-Protestant western- Episcopal Church, not meet in any building, for he held the traditional ers often find the sacred art of the pre-Reformation Savannah, Georgia superstition that, if they practised any magic art, they world deeply compelling, their relation to it is pri- might deceive him and get the better of him as soon marily aesthetic, antiquarian, and romantic. The as he entered. But they came endowed with divine Anglo-Catholic who is surrounded by sacred images not devilish power and bore as their standard a silver is no exception to this rule, but rather its supreme cross and the image of our Lord and Savior painted example. For what was lost in the Reformation is on a panel,” chanting litanies and uttering prayers what was most primary to the sacred image before “to the Lord for their own eternal salvation and the the Reformation—not the image as means of instruc- salvation of those for whom and to whom they had tion in sacred doctrine, Gregory the Great’s rationale come.” Though Bede is writing about two hundred of “the Bible for the illiterate”; but rather, the sense years later, there is no reason to doubt his descrip- of divine presence and activity in and through the tion. By the 6th century, sacred images had become sacred image, to which countless stories of speaking an accepted and expected element in Christian and miracle-working images attest. worship. In distinguishing iconolatry (the veneration of In the English church, of course, the long rich tra- true images of the true Lord and his saints) from idol- dition of the sacred image that developed there came atry (the worship of false gods by means of images), to an abrupt end in the great iconoclasm of the mid the Seventh Ecumenical Council at Nicea in 787 16th century Protestant Reformation, with scars vis- determined that “the honor accorded to the image ible to this day. “Thou shalt not make to thyself any passes over to its prototype, and whoever venerates graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is the image venerates in it the reality of what is there in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the represented”: yet this distinction, valid as it may be, water under the earth; thou shalt not bow down to actually serves to justify external acts of honor done them, nor worship them: for I the Lord thy God am to the Christian image. If we are to do justice to the a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon Christian sacred image, we cannot simply treat it as the children, unto the third and fourth generation of an aesthetic object, of antiquarian interest, or roman- them that hate me; and show mercy unto thousands tic associations. Profitable as it may be to study these in them that love me and keep my commandments.” works of art in the neutral setting and good lighting There are of course, exceptions—a remarkable of the modern art museum, they were made to be amount of stained glass, paintings that have been objects of worship, and we cannot forget that. Maybe The Peter Toon Memorial Lecture, 15 May, 2017 Speaker The Rt Revd Dr Geoffrey Rowell, sometime Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe and Emeritus Fellow, Keble College: ‘Questioning Tradition? Continuity, Identity and Authority in the Church and Society’ Preacher at Evensong: The Revd Dr Daniel Newman, as of 1st December 2016, Associate Minister, St John the Baptist, Woking and Emmanuel, Mayford 4pm Evensong, with sermon 5pm Tea 5.30–6:45 pm Lecture and Discussion Venue: Pusey House, Oxford Anglican Way 3 development of sacred art after the 8th century.
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