The Theory and Practice of Prayer Book Revision in South Africa

Peter Hinchliff

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The Theory and Practice of Prayer Book Revision in South Africa

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Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

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The Provincial Synod of the Church of the Province of South Africa met for the first time in 1870. A long controversy, of which the Colenso law-suits were the core, had made it plain that the Anglican Church was not, and could not be, an established Church in South Africa. The chief task of the synod was to provide some alternative machinery of government and a constitution which could legally serve as a contractual basis for the exercise of the Church's discipline. There were before the synod two documents of primary importance—the draft constitution which the South African bishops had been preparing since 1861, and the report of the first Lambeth Conference.

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Information: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , April 1960 , pp. 87 - 97

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046900063235 [Opens in a new window]
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^{page 87 note 1} Anderson-Morshead, A. E. M., Pioneer and Founder, London 1905, 169.Google Scholar

^{page 87 note 2} The origins of the draft constitution may be traced in the minutes of Episcopal Synod, kept at Bishopscourt in Cape Town. The work began in December 1860/January 1861. Even Colenso took part in it. Cotterill was not present at these first meetings, but sent detailed comments on the resolutions passed. He was not, at that date, entirely in sympathy with bishop Gray, but his comments reveal a grasp of canonical and constitutional principles. The constitution really begins to take shape in the meeting of December 1863, when Cotterill was present. On 30 July 1869 the synod adapted its earlier work to accord more closely with the Lambeth resolutions. Finally, in 1870 the Provincial Synod passed the present constitution.

^{page 87 note 3} Constitution and Canons of the Church of the Province of South Africa, Cape Town 1870 6.Google Scholar

^{page 88 note 1} Ibid.

^{page 88 note 2} Davidson, R. T., The Five Lambeth Conferences, London 1920, 56.Google Scholar

^{page 88 note 3} Constitution and Canons, 1870, 44 f.

^{page 88 note 4} Ibid., 45.

^{page 89 note 1} Constitution and Canons, 1950, Cape Town 1952, 118.Google Scholar

^{page 89 note 2} Suggestions and Adaptations of Services, Cape Town 1911.Google Scholar

^{page 89 note 3} Frere, W. H., Some Principles of Liturgical Reform, London 1911; the bishops issued their schedule towards the end of the year—Minutes of Episcopal Synod, November 1911.Google Scholar

^{page 89 note 4} Suggestions and Adaptations, 3 ff. (a scheme for compressing Matins, Litany and Holy Communion in one Sunday morning service); cf. Frere, op. cit., 154 ff. But the bishops would not adopt Frere's plan for ‘re-uniting the canon’.

^{page 89 note 5} Frere, op. cit., 1, 7, 10.

^{page 89 note 6} Ibid., 195.

^{page 90 note 1} Bazeley, J. and Gould, C., Proposals for the Revision of the Anaphora, Grahamstown 1913.Google Scholar

^{page 90 note 2} Ibid., iii–v, correspondence between the bishop of the diocese and certain of his clergy, printed as a preface to the pamphlet.

^{page 90 note 3} Except for some half-dozen documents, of which Proposals is one, all the records of the committee for the period before 1930, have been destroyed.

^{page 90 note 4} Cf., e.g., an article in The Kingdom (Diocese of Pretoria), XI (1914), No. 1, 7Google Scholar; reprinted fairly fully in Lewis, C. and Edwards, G. E., Historical Records of the Church of the Province of South Africa, London 1934, 227 f.Google Scholar

^{page 90 note 5} Bishop, W. G., ‘The Mass in Spain’, Church Quarterly Review, LXIII (1907), 300 ff.Google Scholar; ‘The Primitive Form of Consecration’, C.Q.R., lxvi (1908), 385 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 90 note 6} For the full details of this and other forms proposed for South Africa, see P. B. Hinchliff, The South African Liturgy, Cape Town (in the press).

^{page 90 note 7} For a review of Proposals see C.Q.R., LXXXIX (1914), 208 ffGoogle Scholar. The review was probably written by W. C. Bishop since there is a letter in much the same terms from Bishop to Gould dated 20 March 1914: Gould Collection, MS. Letters in St. Paul's College Library, Grahamstown.

^{page 90 note 8} Prayers upon Several Occasions and Modifications of Services, 1915.

^{page 91 note 1} ‘The Revision of the Eucharistic Canon’, Church Chronicle, XIV (1916), 212.Google Scholar

^{page 91 note 2} Minutes of the Sacred Synod in the Diocesan Office in Grahamstown (volume marked ‘Sacred Synod 1909–’, 73).

^{page 92 note 1} The Newsletter, Diocese of Grahamstown, March 1918, ‘Cathedral Notes’.

^{page 92 note 2} See above, and Resolution VIII of the Lambeth Conference of 1867. Cf. Article X of the Constitution of the Province.

^{page 92 note 3} Printed in full in Jasper, R. C. D., Walter Howard Frere, Alcuin Club 1954, 203 ff.Google Scholar; and, in part, in Arnold, J. H., Anglican Liturgies, London 1939, 189 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 93 note 1} Constitutions and Canons, 1870, 45.

^{page 93 note 2} ‘Report of Provincial Synod’, Church Chronicle, XVI (1919), 494.Google Scholar

^{page 93 note 3} Jasper, loc. cit.

^{page 93 note 4} An Alternative Form etc., Grahamstown 1919, 11.Google Scholar

^{page 94 note 1} The Church Chronicle of 1920/1 is full of articles and letters, some of them of considerable learning, in which the Invocation is hotly debated. See also Jasper, op. cit., 221 ff. and Bazeley, ‘Liturgical Revision in the Anglican Communion’, Theology, II (1920), 61 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 94 note 2} Hulme, F. H., Blackwall to Bloemfontein, S.A. Church Publications 1950, 220 f.Google Scholar

^{page 94 note 3} An Alternative Liturgy, Durban (undated), and The Liturgy, Johannesburg 1921.Google Scholar

^{page 94 note 4} Anglican Orders, London 1954, 35 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 94 note 5} E.g., Frere on the South African form of 1919, C.Q.R., XC (1920), 123 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 95 note 1} Church Chronicle, XVIII (1931), 396.Google Scholar

^{page 95 note 2} Lewis and Edwards, op. cit., 292.

^{page 96 note 1} Liturgical Committee files, i., draft dated 1922.

^{page 96 note 2} Lit. Com. files, i., draft dated 20 October 1928.

^{page 96 note 3} Synge, F. C., ‘South African Letter’, Theology, LVIII (1955), No. 416, 57 f.CrossRef Google Scholar

^{page 96 note 4} Lit. Com. files, ii., November 1932.

^{page 96 note 5} Lit. Com. files, iv., letter from Gould, 1 September 1942.

^{page 96 note 6} Lit. Com. files, ii., October 1937.

^{page 96 note 7} ‘The Calendar’, Liturgy and Worship, London 1932, 241 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 97 note 1} Some changes have been made in the lections.

^{page 97 note 2} Lit. Com. files, iii., December 1937.

^{page 97 note 3} For an amusing but not entirely accurate review of the completed book, see F. O. Synge, loc. cit.

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