Anglicans Who Don’t Like Liturgy
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anti-liturgy
Author_John Leach
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ceremony
Christian music
discipleship
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formality
liturgy
mission
music
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- ISBN 9780334067146
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2026
- Publisher: SCM Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In recent decades there has been a growing trend, particularly in Charismatic Anglican churches, towards abandoning formal liturgical worship. Influenced by Vineyard churches and a feeling that liturgical worship is unhelpful for mission, these churches have substituted this with a worship song-focused style and 'spontaneous', informal liturgy. John Leach investigates this approach and examines its underlying assumptions. What can we learn from attitudes to formal liturgy, what is the resulting praxis, and where does this leave us?
Based on his research on two Charismatic Anglican networks, New Wine and Holy Trinity Brompton, Leach explores why church leaders believe that this is a positive development, evaluates the wisdom of this position, its relationship with postmodern culture and the spirit of the age, and its effectiveness in long-term formation for discipleship. This volume offers some practical suggestions for the combining of Anglican liturgy and contemporary Christian praise and worship music towards more effective evangelism and discipleship.
John Leach has been in ordained Anglican ministry for 40 years, and worked as national director of Anglican Renewal Ministries (now ReSource) for five years. He has lectured in various theological institutions, mainly on Liturgy, Mission and Biblical Studies and is currently Adjunct Tutor in Theology at Emmanuel Theological College. He has decades of experience in leading musical worship and holds a research degree in how music affects people emotionally.
