A Four Year Lectionary Draft

I recently came across William Humes draft of A Four Year Lectionary.  His concerns are valid.  His Lectionary appears very nice on the surface.  I have not dived into it too deep.  He has chosen to take the RCL, pull out the Lections from John, and follow lectio continua for the most part.  He has focused on lectio continua with great emphasis.

Humes does have a good intention by spreading the Passion accounts throughout the season of Lent.  He does not look to complete tradition in his lections.  But he has a great similarity to the RCL.  He still follows the pattern of using Acts instead of the Old Testament Lesson during Easter.  He also follows probably one of my greatest pet-pevs, the Gospel Lesson as the controlling Lesson.  He does avoid Synoptic Reductionism.

Humes has used the basic theory of Adding an additional Year allows for more texts.  I would be interested in finding out the statistics for his Lectionary.  If you recall you can add an additional year and not gain a lot unless you have a deep intent.  The One Year Lectionary had 10% of Scripture, but the Three Year Lectionary had 22% of Scripture.

I have not checked through this lectionary completely.  But I would probably still conclude he does not go far enough in developing a Four Year Lectionary.  I may be slightly biased because I have also developed a Four Year Lectionary.  But I have reformed the Church Year, and the Focus.  The Four Year Lectionary found at fouryearlectionary.blogspot.com does include alternate lections for OT, NT, and Gospel.  This does set up a devotional pattern which is followed by my other blog.

I do not currently have a full post of my Four Year Lectionary. Thank you.

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