Liturgy in the Age of Reason: Worship and Sacraments in England and Scotland, 1662-C. 1800

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Liturgy in the Age of Reason: Worship and Sacraments in England and Scotland, 1662-c. 1800. By Bryan D. Spinks. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. 2008. Pp. x, 284. $99-95. ISBN 978-0-754-66089-7.)

This is the third volume of a series of studies concerning sacramental theology by Bryan Spinks. The first one, Two Faces of Elizabethan Anglican Theology (Lanham, MD, 1999), focused on the teaching of William Perkins and Richard Hooker. A second volume-Sacraments, Ceremonies, and the Stuart Divines (Burlington, VT, 2002)-involved a much larger group of writers and covered Scotland as well as England .The present book takes up where its predecessor ended, in 1662, and carries the …