This book surveys developments in sacramental and liturgical discourse and discord, exploring the writings of English and Scottish divines, and focusing on baptism and the Lord's Supper. The reigns of James I and Charles I coincided with divergence and development in teaching on the sacraments in England and Scotland and with growing discord on liturgical texts and the ceremonial. Uniquely focusing on both nations in a single study, Bryan Spinks draws on theological treatises, sermons, catechisms, liturgical texts and writings by Scottish theologians hitherto neglected. Exploring the European roots of the churches of England and Scotland and how they became entwined in developments culminating in the Solemn League and Covenant and Westminster Directory, this book presents an authoritative study of sacramental and liturgical debate, developments, and experiments during the Stuart period.

Bryan D. Spinks is Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology at Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School, USA

Contents: Introduction; The sacramental legacy of the 16th-century Reformation; Lex Ritualis, Lex Credendi? From Hampton Court to the Five Articles of Perth; The development of conformist Calvinist and patristic reformed 'sacramentalism', and the sacramental rites of the 1637 Scottish Book of Common Prayer; From the Long Parliament to the death of Cromwell; Kingdoms and churches apart: the Restoration; After-thoughts; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.