Comfortable Words

Polity, Piety and the Book of Common Prayer

AvStephen Platten,Christopher Woods

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

2012 is the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, now widely used in the Church of England and throughout the Anglican Communion. Comfortable Words draws together some of the world’s leading liturgical scholars and historians who offer a comprehensive and accessible study of the Prayer Book and its impact on both Church and society over the last three and a half centuries.Comfortable Words includes new and original scholarship here about the use of the Book of Common Prayer at different periods during its life. It also sets out some key material on the background to the production of both the Tudor books and the seventeenth-century book itself.The book is aimed at scholars, students in theological colleges, courses and universities, but there is sufficient accessibility of style for it to be accessible to others who are interested in the Prayer Book more widely in the church and to intelligent lay people. The book is unique in the way that it studies the Prayer Book and looks at the impact of it, both on the Church and on English society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-10-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt:458 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SCM Studies in Worship & Liturgy Series
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:SCM Press
ISBN:9780334053064

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Stephen Platten is Bishop of Wakefield and Chair of the Church of England Liturgical Commission. Christopher Woods is Secretary of the Church of England Liturgical Commission and National Worship Development Officer of the Archbishops’ Council.

Recensioner i media

With fresh scholarly insight, this excellent collection of essays traces the influence of the Book of Common Prayer from its Tudor origins to the present day. This volume is essential reading for those with an academic interest in the history and liturgy of the Anglican Church as well as clergy and laity charged with leading worship today. As the Church of England comes to terms with having an unprecedented range of liturgical resources at its disposal, a critical consideration of Archbishop Cranmer’s masterly attempt at liturgical uniformity is both timely and challenging.