The Reformed Liturgy

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The Reformed Liturgy is a 17th-century Puritan worship manual by Richard Baxter that sought to provide a simpler, more scripturally grounded alternative to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.


Statements (44)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian liturgical book
Puritan liturgical text
worship manual
aimsToReform Anglican worship practices
associatedMovement English Puritan movement
associatedPerson Richard Baxter NERFINISHED
associatedPlace Kidderminster
author Richard Baxter NERFINISHED
contrastsWith Book of Common Prayer
countryOfOrigin England
denominationalContext English Puritan
ecclesiasticalContext Church of England
emphasizes congregational participation
intelligible prayer
preaching of the Word
genre liturgical manual
pastoral resource
hasAuthorCitizenship English
hasAuthorOccupation Puritan minister
historicalContext Puritan reform of the Church of England
historicalPeriod Post-Reformation England
influencedBy Calvinist worship practices
Reformed theology
intendedAudience ministers in the Church of England sympathetic to Puritan reforms
intendedEffect reform of national worship in England
language English
liturgicalForm set prayers
structured order of service
liturgicalTradition Reformed worship
liturgicalUse congregational worship
public worship
opposes set forms perceived as unscriptural in the Book of Common Prayer
publicationCentury 17th century
purpose to provide a more scripturally grounded form of worship
to provide a simpler alternative to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer
religiousTradition Protestantism
Puritanism
scripturalBasis Bible
subject Christian liturgy
order of worship
public prayer
theologicalEmphasis biblical authority
edification of the congregation
simplicity in worship

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Richard Baxter
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