Theological Discourse and the Recovery of Sacred Form

Church is the one time a week when Christians come together to meet with God, by hearing his eternal Word proclaimed, by joining the chorus of the heavenly angels, by confessing their sins and receiving forgiveness, by greeting the saints whom they will know for eternity, and, above all, by taking, eating, and drinking the very body and blood of God Incarnate. (View Highlight)

The first step towards recovering honor towards the sacred is the retrieval of sacred form. (View Highlight)

The Word is not the content, and his humanity the mere accidental form. The Word is made present through the flesh and has bound himself inseparably to it. Insofar as Word is content and flesh is form, and insofar as we are even right to conceptually distinguish the two, they are nevertheless indivisible. (View Highlight)

We must also retrieve their practices of worship and their commitment to ecumenical unity in the apostolic faith. We must be, as the Nicene Creed says, One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. To be anything less is to miss the mark. (View Highlight)

Have we become too shallow in our worship, perhaps not in personal sincerity but in manner and form? Or, to put it more encouragingly, are we possibly missing out on a beautiful inheritance of liturgical worship, which not only would form us in faithful continuity to the past, but provide us with greater encouragement as we await the eschatological future? (View Highlight)