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and beyond? 1213 What is the measure of their pneumatological richness, the theological
tenor of their expression? What of the prayers employed in the Reformed communions
of Poland and Hungary? What of France and Scotland? And what of each of these
communions' descendants? That is, what is the derivation and development of
pneumatological euchology in the Presbyterian tradition, up to and including the current
Book of Common Worship? 1214 What about the prayers of the Mercersburg Movement
in nineteenth century America, and the debate between its protagonists and
antagonists? 1215 What of the fresh liturgical expressions introduced by Jean-Frédéric
Ostervald in Neuchâtel in the eighteenth century, 1216 and Eugène Arthur François
Bersier in Paris in the nineteenth century? 1217
1213 Preliminary research in this early period would well regard the collection of essays in
Worship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Change and Continuity in Religious Practice, ed. Karin
Maag and John D. Witvliet (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004); and in Christian
Worship in Reformed Churches Past and Present, ed. Lukas Vischer (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003);
and the critical editions of some primary sources, with their introductory material in Coena Domini I, ed.
Irmgard Pahl (Freiburg: Universitätsverlag, 1983).
1214 Book of Common Worship (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993). An excellent
start to study would be the collection of essays in To Glorify God: Essays on Modern Reformed Liturgy,
ed. Bryan D. Spinks and Iain R. Torrance (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999).
1215 A start for study would well include Nathan D. Mitchell, "Church, Eucharist, and Liturgical
Reform at Mercersburg, 1843-57" (Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Notre Dame, 1978); Jack Martin
Maxwell, Worship and Reformed Theology: The Liturgical Lessons of Mercersburg (Pittsburgh:
Pickwick Press, 1976); James Hastings Nichols, Romanticism in American Theology: Nevin and Schaff at
Mercersburg (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961). See also Arie J. Griffioen, "Nevin on the
Lord's Supper," in Reformed Confessionalism in Nineteenth Century America (Lanham, Maryland:
Scarecrow Press, 1995), 113-24; Richard A. Muller, "Emanuel V. Gerhart on the 'Christ-idea' as
Fundamental Principle," Westminster Theological Journal 48, no. 1 (1986), 97-117.
1216 I am grateful to John Witvliet for having once passed along to me (in 2002) an unpublished
piece entitled "Jean-Frédéric Ostervald (1663-1747), Reformed Liturgist: A Brief Summary of Current
Historical Research." This piece contains an excellent summary of current research, just as its title
suggests, and thus a store of bibliographic material. See also Martin I. Klauber, "Confession, Creeds, and
Catechisms in Swiss Reformed Theology (1675-1734)," Westminster Theological Journal 57, no. 2
(1995), 403-413; Bruno Bürki, "Beispielhaft reformierte Form der Liturgie de Neuchâtel," in
Liturgiereformen 1, Biblische Modelle und Liturgiereformen von der Frühzeit bis zur Aufklärung
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