Select Works of Charles Walker (5 vols.)
Overview
The Select Works of Charles Walker includes The Ritual Reason Why and four other volumes from the liturgist who sought to help his generation rediscover the function behind the Church’s forms. Walker wrote in the wake of the Oxford Movement, and his work addresses what he saw as a growing disconnect in the popular consciousness between ceremony and sincere worship. In Walker’s mind, many mistakenly saw Church ceremony as beautiful or salvific in itself, and others viewed Church tradition with cynicism. Walker’s work defends centuries-old ceremonial worship. He hoped to lead both the cynic and the legalist to the truth that liturgy uniquely expresses, for “ritual divorced from truth is of all things the most melancholy . . . a shadow without substance.”
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- Includes Charles Walker’s volume defending Church ceremony, The Ritual Reason Why
- Provides a window into the nineteenth-century debates on ceremony in the Church of England
- Preserves and discusses volumes influential in the development of Anglican liturgy
Partially includedCharles Walker was an Anglican liturgist and author in the mid to late nineteenth century. He is best remembered for his The Ritual Reason Why, in which he defends the ceremony of the Church of England. He also published several other liturgies, devotionals, and manuals.
