The Liturgical Revolution Cranmer's Godly Order: The Destruction of Catholicism through Liturgical Change
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Church of England
[ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1976
Publisher
Volume
1
Pages
162
Series Name
Description
Reformers changed the Mass, and when Part Three on Pope Paul's New Mass appears it will be possible for the reader to lay the two volumes side by side and compare, section by section, the scarcely credible similarity between two programmes of liturgical reformation separated by four centuries. Part Two will deal with the manner in which the Second Vatican Council, wittingly or unwittingly, prepared the way for the new Mass. Its account of the Council's background, the influences at work upon the Council Fathers, and its debates and effects, may well make it one of the most controversial volumes of the trilogy.
In the present work, the author confines himself to explaining Catholic teaching on the Eucharist and grace, and the grounds on which this was contested by the Protestant Reformers. He gives a detailed examination of their own Eucharistic doctrine, and proves that it is incompatible with that of the Catholic Church. He draws not only upon the classic studies on the subject by Catholic and Protestant historians, but quotes from original source material such as the Sarum Missal, the 1549 Book of Common Prayer, and the writings of the Protestant Reformers. The book also contains a careful study of the principles which should govern liturgical reform, and a detailed history of the Mass of St. Pius V.
Cranmer's Godly Order is certain to challenge the widespread assumption that the Church can make radical changes in her liturgy without compromising the basis of her faith.
The Author
Michael Davies is a teacher by profession, and lives in London with his wife and family of four children. He was educated at Yeovil School and spent three years in the Somerset Light Infantry, serving in Malaya during the Communist insurrection and then in the Middle East. He began receiving instruction in the Catholic Faith while in his final year at school and was received into the Church while serving in the Army. He has obtained an honours degree from London University, and has also trained as a teacher at St. Mary's College, Strawberry Hill.
The aughor has contributed articles to more than a dozen Catholic journals of all shades of opinion in Great Britain and the USA. He is well known as a controversialist and many of his letters have been published in the Catholic press, upholding the traditionalist standpoint on all the major points of dispute within the Church today. He first became widely known as a writer through his Dossier on Catechetics, now in its third edition, which still remains the most authoritative and best-documented expose of the deficiencies of the new programmes of catechetics. Many Americans are also familiar with his writings, not only through such British journals as Approaches and Christian Order, which circulate in the USA, but above all through The Remnant.
A number of his articles are in constant demand in pamphlet form - most having achieved a circulation in excess of 10,000, some far higher quantities.
Michael Davies' writing is respected primarily for his ability to reduce problems to their basic principles, and for the objective and documented manner in which he explains them. His work is painstaking, and it is presently in an orderly and straightforward style which is very readable.
The firm and competent dignity of his work is rapidly establishing him as a spokesman for the repressed traditionalist minority, who are increasingly demanding recognition of their just rights to observe and retain the age-old practices of the Church.
Those in authority in the Church would do well to examine the case he presents with the attention which its serious and sober treatment demands.
Taken from the back cover.
In the present work, the author confines himself to explaining Catholic teaching on the Eucharist and grace, and the grounds on which this was contested by the Protestant Reformers. He gives a detailed examination of their own Eucharistic doctrine, and proves that it is incompatible with that of the Catholic Church. He draws not only upon the classic studies on the subject by Catholic and Protestant historians, but quotes from original source material such as the Sarum Missal, the 1549 Book of Common Prayer, and the writings of the Protestant Reformers. The book also contains a careful study of the principles which should govern liturgical reform, and a detailed history of the Mass of St. Pius V.
Cranmer's Godly Order is certain to challenge the widespread assumption that the Church can make radical changes in her liturgy without compromising the basis of her faith.
The Author
Michael Davies is a teacher by profession, and lives in London with his wife and family of four children. He was educated at Yeovil School and spent three years in the Somerset Light Infantry, serving in Malaya during the Communist insurrection and then in the Middle East. He began receiving instruction in the Catholic Faith while in his final year at school and was received into the Church while serving in the Army. He has obtained an honours degree from London University, and has also trained as a teacher at St. Mary's College, Strawberry Hill.
The aughor has contributed articles to more than a dozen Catholic journals of all shades of opinion in Great Britain and the USA. He is well known as a controversialist and many of his letters have been published in the Catholic press, upholding the traditionalist standpoint on all the major points of dispute within the Church today. He first became widely known as a writer through his Dossier on Catechetics, now in its third edition, which still remains the most authoritative and best-documented expose of the deficiencies of the new programmes of catechetics. Many Americans are also familiar with his writings, not only through such British journals as Approaches and Christian Order, which circulate in the USA, but above all through The Remnant.
A number of his articles are in constant demand in pamphlet form - most having achieved a circulation in excess of 10,000, some far higher quantities.
Michael Davies' writing is respected primarily for his ability to reduce problems to their basic principles, and for the objective and documented manner in which he explains them. His work is painstaking, and it is presently in an orderly and straightforward style which is very readable.
The firm and competent dignity of his work is rapidly establishing him as a spokesman for the repressed traditionalist minority, who are increasingly demanding recognition of their just rights to observe and retain the age-old practices of the Church.
Those in authority in the Church would do well to examine the case he presents with the attention which its serious and sober treatment demands.
Taken from the back cover.
Number of Copies
3
