• Frontmatter,
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS,
• CONTENTS,
• ILLUSTRATIONS,
• INTRODUCTION,
• CHAPTER I. TWO TRADITIONS OF WORSHIP: ANGLICAN AND PURITAN,
• CHAPTER II. GEORGIAN CHURCHES AND MEETING-HOUSES,
• CHAPTER III. ANGLICAN WORSHIP AND PREACHING IN THE AUGUSTAN AGE,
• CHAPTER IV. UNITARIAN WORSHIP: THE LITURGY OF RATIONALISM,
• CHAPTER V. THE OLD DISSENT: INDEPENDENTS AND PRESBYTERIANS,
• CHAPTER VI. RADICAL WORSHIP: THE QUAKERS AND THE BAPTISTS,
• CHAPTER VII. THE METHODIST REVOLUTION IN POPULAR PREACHING: THE TECHNIQUES OF WESLEY AND WHITEFIELD,
• CHAPTER VIII. THE METHODIST UNION OF FORMAL AND FREE WORSHIP,
• CHAPTER IX. ANGLICAN EVANGELICALISM: THE SPIRIT AND THE LITURGY,
• CHAPTER X. THE OXFORD MOVEMENT: THE RECOVERY OF CATHOLIC TRADITION,
• CHAPTER XI. F. D. MAURICE AND THE LITURGY AS THE SYMBOL OF UNITY IN CHURCH AND STATE,
• BIBLIOGRAPHY,
• INDEX,

Worship even more than theology may be the key to a true understanding of the Church's history, for through it people express their interpretation of theology and religion. In this third volume (chronologically) of a planned several-volume series, Professor Davies traces liturgy's relationship to music, literature, and architecture; studies the effects of philosophical, social, and theological movements (18th century Rationalism, the Oxford Movement, the Evangelical Revival); and describes the techniques of such popular preachers and teachers as Whitefield and Wesley. There are chapters on Anglican, Congregational, Baptist, Presbyterian, Quaker, and Unitarian worship, forming a rich portrait of the varieties of Christian worship in England.
Originally published in 1961.
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