After analysing Justin Martyr’s account of the
liturgy of the church in Rome around AD 150, Nicholas Wolterstorff points out
that “as far as we know, the main Sunday service of the Christian church in all
times and places (except for certain sects) invariably included these two
components [ the liturgy of the Word and the liturgy of the Lord’s Supper]
until in Holy Week in 1525 in his church in Zurich, Zwingli pulled them apart”
and began to hold the Lord’s Supper just four times a year.
Nicholas Wolterstorff, ‘The Reformed Litugy’ pp273-304 in Donald K.
McKim (ed.) Major Themes in the Reformed
Tradition (Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1992) p278
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