“But any attempt to ‘modernise’ liturgy in terms of making it more acceptable to modern society (i.e. ‘pastoral respectability’) should be undertaken with extreme caution; the warning of Charles Davis is paramount here: ‘My thesis is that there is no modern form of worship, because worship itself is outdated in the modern world and Christian Faith a state of deviancy from contemporary culture.'”
– Bryan D. Spinks, “Christian Worship or Cultural Incantations?”, Studia Liturgical, vol. 12 (1977), 1, 12-13 (quoting Charles Davis, “Ghetto or Desert: Liturgy in a Cultural Dilemma” in Worship and Secularization (1970), pp. 10-27, p. 12).Source: 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition