Centenary Lecture: Some New Anaphoras Compared

Delivered at Edinburgh and Aberdeen November 1982 by the Revd Principal A Raymond George.

Pre-Reformation rites are reviewed but the bulk of the paper consists of a searching analysis of some recently revised rites: the Book of Common Order 1979 (Third Order), the Roman Mass of 1970 (eucharistic prayer IV) the Alternative Service Book 1980 (First Eucharistic Prayer of Rite A), the Methodist Service Book 1975, and the Eucharistic Prayer of the Joint Liturgical Group. These are compared in the contexts of liturgical scholarship, of recent ecumenical scholarship (particularly the discussion of presence and of sacrifice), and of the consensus of wider theology.