Rome and Liturgical Variation [Commentary on Browne: Article XXXIV] | The North American Anglican

Rome and Liturgical Variation [Commentary on Browne: Article XXXIV] | The North American Anglican

This Article upholds the logic of Article XX—in which the normative principle of worship is affirmed—and extends it. As the church “hath power to decree rites or ceremonies,” so “every particular or national Church hath authority to ordain, change, and abolish, ceremonies or rites of the Church, ordained only by man’s authority.” Hence, “It is...