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Revisiting “The Shape Fallacy”: A Response to Ben Jefferies

I am concerned with something bigger than any one late modern prayer book: how the Dixian shift to thinking of the prayer book in terms of “shape” has affected the virtues of the prayer book tradition.

The Shape Fallacy: The Book of Common Prayer as Text

The Reformers were concerned not only with theology but also with its expression in worship. Many liturgies were produced in the churches of the magisterial Reformation in Germany, England, Switzerland, and elsewhere.