A consideration of the liturgical idea
In four talks and a discussion
3-Christendom: the Theory and the Reality
The third in this group of programmes takes the form of a discussion among four people. Each would claim that the religious-and consequently sacrificial-view of society is valid in itself; but each looks at the question from the standpoint of his own intellectual discipline, interests, and experience.
Do the Middle Ages offer a genuine
' liturgical episode' in the history of Christendom; and if so, in what aspects and at which periods? How do the concepts ' liturgy ' and ' sacrifice ' relate to our modern technological society, pre-occupied as it is with an indefinite number of separate, even disparate, and wholly mundane ends?
THE SPEAKERS:
Historian: ERIC JOHN. Lecturer In Medieval History, Manchester University
Scientist: D. G. CHRISTOPHERSON , Professor of Applied Science at the Imperial College of Science, London University
Theologian: THE REV. GORDON DAVIES , Senior Lecturer in Theology. Birmingham University
Parish Priest: THE REV. GORDON PHILLIPS , Rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury, and Senior Anglican Chaplain, London University