Focusing on initiation, healing and deliverence liturgies within the church, "Fight Valiantly" seeks to rectify that defecit, considering the Church of England's liturgical practice in the parishes, and highlighting the present danger of worshippers receiving an inconsistent and potentially incoherent account of the relationship with evil.

Tom Clammer

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I

1 Liturgical Theology and the Church of England

What are the historic formularies of the Church of England?

A worked example of lex orandi, lex credendi in the Anglican tradition

2 Liturgy in the Church of England: The Pre-Common Worship Position

3 Methodology

Sources

Structural Analysis

Liturgical and Theological Analysis

Scriptural Themes

Theological Themes

Analytical Matrix

The Methodology Summarised

4 The Names

Names used in Common Worship

Reflections

Part II

5 Initiation

Scriptural References to Initiation

Identifying the Key Ritual Elements

Structural Analysis of the Units

Summary Conclusions

6 Healing

Scriptural References to Healing

Key Ritual Elements

7 Deliverance

Introduction to deliverance issues

Prayers for Protection and Peace

Notes

Part III

8 Conclusions

Forces of evil; No God but one

External; Provisional; Counterfeit; Power; Reality; Shadowy; Interim

Evil One; Power of Idols; Demons

Bear heavily

Temptation

Captive; beyond our powers to resist; Deliverance

Nervousness about Deliverance and Exorcism

The Decision

Confusions over Oil, Authority and Ministry

The Book of Common Prayer

Highly Realised Demonology: the Inclusion of the Christaraksha

A Coherent theology?

A Provisional Theology?

Bibliography

Unpublished Interview:

Index of Bible References

Index of Names and Subjects

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