Comfortable Words
Polity, Piety and the Book of common Prayer
1st Edition
Published on 7. January 2013
200 pages
978-0-334-04895-4 (ISBN)
Description
Leading historical and liturgical scholars reflect on the history and impact of Book of Common Prayer, the most important liturgical text in English.
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Content
- Comfortable Words
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- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- Contributors
- 1 All Such Good Works The Book of Common Prayer and the Fashioning of English Society
- 2 The Tudor Prayer Books That 'the whole realme shall have but one use'
- 3 The Prayer Book in Early Stuart Society
- 4 Absent Presence Lancelot Andrewes and 1662
- 5 The 1662 Prayer Book
- 6 Common Prayer in the Eighteenth Century
- 7 The Transition from 'Excellent Liturgy' to being 'Too Narrow for the Religious Life of the Present Generation' The Book of Common Prayer in the Nineteenth Century
- 8 Liturgical Development From Common Prayer to Uncommon Worship
- 9 The Book of Common Prayer and Anglicanism Worship and Belief
- Epilogue A place for the 1662 Book of Common Prayer in the twenty-first-century Church?
- Index
