The Conference 2008 - A View from Praxis

 

The editor of Praxis News of Worship, The Reverend Canon Gilly Myers, wrote a brief review of the 2008 conference:-

 

“The biennial SLS conference met in Mirfield during a gloomy August week, but with much to stimulate and raise the spirits. All in all twelve papers were presented on the general topic of 'liturgical formation', covering a range of subjects including  liturgical competence, what children say about the eucharist (and the resulting questions regarding the liturgical formation of a eucharistic community), worship and belief, dramatic expressions of silence within liturgical space, and formation for dying. Some of the findings posed a challenge to the church, and the outcome of the keynote lecture by Brian Spinks - 'What is Celtic about Contemporary Celtic Worship' - was quite a surprise.  Having examined the sources that exist of ancient Celtic liturgy, and compared these with some prominent contemporary publications purporting to be in the same tradition, he concluded  that there is mainly very little that is Celtic in much of the material, and in some cases nothing at all - other than a use of archaic language conventions.

 

The Society was originally formed in order to encourage 'younger liturgists'. Thus members were delighted to find that the more experienced scholars presenting papers were joined by a number of fresh and younger faces.

 

Many of the papers will find their way into the Society's journal - Anaphora. Members of the Liturgical Commission, and anyone involved with liturgical formation at any level will find something of interest within.”

The Biennial Conference 2010  - Worship and Mission

 

The Conference is to take place from Tuesday 24 to Thursday 26 August 2010 at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, West Yorkshire, UK

 

The Conference provides a very good opportunity to meet others working in the area of liturgical studies and to hear and discuss papers both from established scholars and those at an earlier stage of their liturgical research and teaching.

 

The Call for papers and booking information will be available shortly from this site.

 

A list of papers given at previous conferences are available on the Previous Conference page.