Gregory Dix
Nashdom Abbey, Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England | |
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Nationality | British |
Denomination | Anglicanism |
Alma mater | Merton College, Oxford |
Sainthood | |
Feast day | 12 May |
Venerated in | Church of England |
George Eglinton Alston Dix
Life
Dix was born on 4 October 1901 in
Returning to Nashdom he became an intern
Scholarly work
As a scholar, Dix worked primarily in the field of liturgical studies. He produced an edition of the Apostolic Tradition in 1935. In The Shape of the Liturgy, first published in 1945, he argued that it was not so much the words of the liturgy but its "shape" which mattered.[citation needed] His study of the liturgy's historical development led him to formulate what is called the four-action shape of the liturgy: offertory, prayer, fraction, communion.[9] Dix's work then influenced liturgical revision in the Anglican Communion. More recent scholars, however, have criticised it as lacking historical accuracy. Dix's conclusion that "Cranmer in his eucharistic doctrine was a devout and theologically founded Zwinglian, and that his Prayer Books were exactly framed to express his convictions" also proved controversial.[10]
In particular, Dix's claims for the "shape" of the liturgy, which laid emphasis on the significance of the
Ecclesiastical politics
Dix was an
In 1944 Dix defended Anglican orders against Roman Catholic critics. Believing that "Unless we are 'Catholics' inasmuch and because we are 'Anglicans', then we are not being 'Catholics'", he stated that "For three centuries the C. of E. taught the essentials of the Catholic Faith and ministered the essential Catholic Sacraments to the ordinary English people, when no one else could, or would have been allowed by the state to do. That is her title to exist, and I think a man could and should love her for that, even if he felt that he must leave her now."[14] In explaining his oft-repeated description of the Anglican episcopate as Edwardian, he commented "Strictly Edward VI in theology; strictly Edward VII in mental equipment and strictly Edward VIII in their views on marriage."[15]
Death
Dix died of
Gregory Dix is
References
Citations
- ^ Bailey 1995, p. 7.
- ^ Fuller 2014, p. 13.
- ^ Levens 1964, p. 135.
- ^ a b Bailey 1995, p. 22.
- ^ "Project Canterbury: God's Courtier: A Memoir of Dom Gregory Dix, OSB". Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ Bailey 1995, pp. 48, 61.
- ^ "Project Canterbury: God's Courtier: A Memoir of Dom Gregory Dix, OSB". Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ Bailey 1995, pp. 74, 117–118.
- ^ Fuller 2014, pp. 71–72, 76.
- ^ Dix 1948, p. 2.
- ^ Schmemann, pp. 2:7.
- ^ Bailey 1995, p. 92.
- ^ Dix 1944, p. 92.
- ^ Dix 1944, p. 91.
- ^ Williamson 1957, p. 144.
- ^ Fuller 2014, p. 13; Jones 2007, p. xx.
- ^ Kemp 1959, p. 204.
- ^ Jones 2007, p. xx.
- ^ "The Calendar". The Church of England. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
Works cited
- Arguile, Roger (1986). The Offering of the People. London: Jubilee Group.
- Bailey, Simon (1995). A Tactful God. Leominster, England: Gracewing (published 2002). ISBN 978-0-85244-304-0.
- ISBN 978-0-905422-35-0.
- Dix, Gregory (1944). The Question of Anglican Orders: Letters to a Layman. Westminster, England: Dacre Press.
- ——— (1945). The Shape of the Liturgy. London: Dacre Press.
- ——— (1948). Dixit Cranmer Et Non Timuit. London: Dacre Press.
- Fuller, David John (2014). Homo Eucharisticus: Dom Gregory Dix Reshaped (PhD thesis). Glasgow: University of Glasgow. OCLC 883446226. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
- Gray, Donald (1986). Earth and Altar: The Evolution of the Parish Communion in the Church of England to 1945. Norwich, England: Canterbury Press.
- Hebert, A. G. (1951). Liturgy and Society: The Function of the Church in the Modern World. London: Faber and Faber.
- Jones, Simon, ed. (2007). The Sacramental Life: Gregory Dix and His Writings. Norwich, England: Canterbury Press. ISBN 978-1-85311-717-6.
- Kemp, E. W. (1959). The Life and Letters of Kenneth Escott Kirk, Bishop of Oxford, 1937–1954. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
- Levens, R. G. C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register, 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
- MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Thomas Cranmer: A Life. Yale University Press.
- Schmemann, Alexander. For the Life of the World.
- Williamson, H. R. (1957) [1956]. The Walled Garden: An Autobiography. New York: Macmillan.
Further reading
- Leachman, James G. (1993). Dom Gregory Dix, 1901–1952: An Introduction to His Liturgical Writings on Christian Initiation and the Eucharist (SLD thesis). Rome: Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm. OCLC 30788340.
- Spinks, Bryan D. (1990). "Mis-Shapen: Gregory Dix and the Four-Action Shape of the Liturgy". Lutheran Quarterly. 4: 161–177. ISSN 2470-5616.