“Let the little children come”: Liturgical Revision and Paedocommunion in the Christian Reformed Church
This article examines the Lord’s Supper liturgies of the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRC) and inquires into a possible relationship between liturgical changes and the admission of children to the Lord’s Supper. The stern warnings and emphasis on communicants’ understanding of the sac...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publishing
2021
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Studia liturgica
Year: 2021, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 203-216 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Christian Reformed Church
/ Lord's Supper
/ Infant communion
/ History 1964-2016
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America KDD Protestant Church NBP Sacramentology; sacraments |
| Further subjects: | B
paedocommunion
B liturgical renewal B Lord’s Supper B Christian Reformed Church |
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| Summary: | This article examines the Lord’s Supper liturgies of the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRC) and inquires into a possible relationship between liturgical changes and the admission of children to the Lord’s Supper. The stern warnings and emphasis on communicants’ understanding of the sacrament in the CRC’s oldest liturgies necessarily excluded children from participating in the sacrament. The 1968 Order for Communion was a milestone in the denomination’s liturgical growth. The absence of a preparatory exhortation and lengthy exposition provide a liturgy which can imagine children participating in the Lord’s Supper. An increasing emphasis on communicants’ communion with one another, evident in the 1981 Service of Word and Sacrament and the formularies adopted by Synods 1994 and 2016 may have helped facilitate the denomination’s acceptance of paedocommunion. |
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| ISSN: | 2517-4797 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studia liturgica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/00393207211027588 |