Zac Hicks – Worship by Faith Alone

Brent and Ian talk with Zac Hicks, adjunct lecturer in music and worship at Samford University, Alabama, in the States.  Previously, he served as the Canon for Worship and Liturgy at Advent Cathedral in Birmingham, Alabama.

Zac’s new IVP book is about the great 16th century Protestant Reformer, Thomas Cranmer, the architect of the Church of England’s ‘Book of Common Prayer’. Zac’s book is called ‘Worship by Faith Alone.  Thomas Cranmer, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Reformation Liturgy’. 

• (1:18) Who was Thomas Cranmer?;
• (4:30) Cranmer’s martyrdom;
• (10:00) The Prayer Books;
• (10:35) Justification by faith alone the basis of Cranmer’s life and liturgy;
• (16:00) The English Church after 1552;
• (18:30) Congregational involvement in the liturgy;
• (21:30) Cranmer’s view of the Lord’s Supper and how it changed from 1549-1552;
• (24:45) Oblation, Sacrifice and Satisfaction;
• (26:00) The Prayer of Humble Access.

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.ivpress.com

www.amazon.com/Worship-Faith-Alone-Reformation-Christian/dp/1514005220

zachicks.com/worship-by-faith-alone-is-here/

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