Donald Philip Veitch

The Reformed Book of Common Prayer Donald Philip Veitch

The Reformed Book of Common Prayer, Volume 1, is was designed for Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, the Litany, Ante-Communion, Communion and the Pastoral Offices, using the 1662 BCP as the structure. However, with Volume II, we added the "21 Forms of Unity" including the Westminster Standards, the Three Forms of Unity, The Thirty-Nine Articles, the Chicago Statements on Inerrancy and Hermeneutics, the Scots' Confession, the French Confession, the Second Helvetica, the Lambeth Articles, the Catechism of the Church of Geneva and some others. It's a "Reformed Book of Common Prayer." It was designed for those with Reformed backgrounds who get no Reformed Theology in Anglican and Episcopal contexts, schools or pulpits. The old Anglicans had Reformed Churchmen, but those days are gone. Expect little-to-no Reformed Theology in Anglican/Episcopal contexts. Volumes 1 and 2 were was designed for private use. For those with Reformed catechesis in their backgrounds, you will understand this. For the Reformed, we are still liturgical and Prayer Bookish. Neither affinity group may like the amendments, yet both may understand this hybrid, driven of necessity and desire. Yet, both old school Anglicans, old school Presbyterians and old school Reformed Churchmen will recognize these things. Of course, the Anabaptacostalist traditions will not understand any of this. They would rather clap, enthuse, "get all excited" and do free-for-alls. Clap-trap. However, this new RBCP is "regulated" and disciplined by the Bible. It may be the first of its kind--both Reformed and Anglican.