Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer : A Worldwide Survey.
Title:
Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer : A Worldwide Survey.
Author:
Hefling, Charles.
ISBN:
9780199723898
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (640 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Maps -- Foreword, The Most Reverend Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Anglicans and Common Prayer, Charles Hefling -- Part One: 'But One Use': The Birth of the Classical Prayer Book -- Worship by the Book, Kenneth Stevenson -- Cranmer and Common Prayer, Gordon Jeanes -- The Prayer Book 'Noted', Robin A. Leaver -- From Elizabeth I to Charles II, Bryan Spinks -- Early Translations, J. Robert Wright -- The 'Liturgy of Comprehension', Charles Hefling -- The Shape of the Classical Book of Common Prayer, J. Neil Alexander -- The State Services, Charles Hefling -- Part Two: The Social and Cultural Life of the Prayer Book -- The Prayer Book and the Parish Church: From the Elizabethan Settlement to the Restoration, Judith Maltby -- The Prayer Book and the Parish Church: From the Restoration to the Oxford Movement, Jeremy Gregory -- Prayer Book Architecture, James F. White -- Prayer Books and Printers, Martin W. Hutner -- The Prayer Book as 'Sacred Text', Kenneth Stevenson -- The Prayer Book as Literature, Paul G. Stanwood -- Part Three: The Prayer Book Outside England -- Plantations, Missions, and Colonies, William L. Sachs -- The Prayer Book in Anglican Churches -- Scotland: Episcopalians and Nonjurors, Charles Hefling -- The Colonies and States of America, Marion J. Hatchett -- British North America and Canada, William R. Blott -- Southern Africa, Cynthia Botha -- Ireland, Brian Mayne -- The Prayer Book and Other Traditions -- John Wesley and the Methodists, Karen B. Westerfield Tucker -- King's Chapel and the Unitarians, Carl Scovel -- Churches in the Continuing Anglican Tradition, Lesley A. Northup -- The Prayer Book and Lutheranism, Philip H. Pfatteicher.
Part Four: From Uniformity to Family Resemblance: Prayer Books in the Twentieth Century -- The Winds of Change, Colin Buchanan -- The Prayer Book 'Crisis' in England, Bryan Spinks -- The Legacy of the Church of South India, Colin Buchanan -- The Liturgical Movement and Its Consequences, John F. Baldovin, S.J. -- Preserving the Classical Prayer Books, Colin Buchanan -- Part Five: Family Portraits: Prayer Books Today -- Inculturation and Anglican Worship, Ian T. Douglas -- Rites and Books in Africa -- Anglican Liturgies in Eastern Africa, Esther Mombo -- The Anglican Church of Kenya, Grant LeMarquand -- The Church of Nigeria: The Book of Common Prayer, David C. Okeke -- The Church of Nigeria: Occasional Services, Emmanuel Ekpunobi -- Central African Prayer Books, Titus Presler -- The Province of Southern Africa, Michael Nuttall -- Other African Provinces: Burundi, Rwanda, and Congo -- Rites and Books in the Pacific -- The Anglican Church of Australia, Charles Sherlock -- The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Polynesia, Kenneth Booth -- From Te Rawiri to the New Zealand Prayer Book, Jenny Te Paa -- The Church of Melanesia, Terry Brown -- The Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea, Justus VanHouten, S.S.F. -- Hawaii -- Rites and Books in the Americas -- The Episcopal Church in the U.S.A., Lesley A. Northup -- Native American Translations -- The Anglican Church of Canada, John W. B. Hill -- Indigenous Canadian Translations -- The Province of the West Indies, Charles Hefling -- The Book of Common Prayer in Spanish, Juan M. C. Oliver -- Rites and Books in Asia -- The Episcopal Church in the Philippines, Tomas S. Maddela -- Japan: Nippon Sei Ko Kai, John M. Yoshida -- The Chinese Prayer Book, Sze-kar Wan -- The Anglican Church of Korea, Nak-Hyon Joseph Joo -- The Province of Myanmar (Burma), Katherine E. Babson.
The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East -- Rites and Books in Europe -- The Church of England: Common Worship, Trevor Lloyd -- The Scottish Episcopal Church, Gianfranco Tellini -- The Church in Wales, Robert Paterson -- The Church of Ireland, Harold Miller -- Anglican Churches in Europe, Jeffery Rowthorn -- Part Six: Worship in the Prayer Book Family -- Anglicans and Liturgical Revision, Richard Geoffrey Leggett -- The Daily Office, John Gibaut -- The Eucharist, Ronald Dowling -- Sanctifying Time: The Calendar, Leonel L. Mitchell -- Rites of Initiation, Ruth A. Meyers -- Catechisms, James F. Turrell -- Marriage, Gillian Varcoe -- Funeral Rites, Trevor Lloyd -- Anglican Ordinals, Richard Geoffrey Leggett -- Part Seven: The Future of the Book of Common Prayer -- The Book of Common Prayer and Technology, Donald Kraus -- The Prayer Book in Cyberspace, Clayton L. Morris -- The Future of Common Prayer, Pierre W. Whalon -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Select Bibliography -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
The Book of Common Prayer runs like a golden thread through the history of the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion. The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer is the first comprehensive guide to the history and usage of the original Book of Common Prayer and its numerous descendants throughout the world. It shows how a seminal text for Christian worship and devotion has inspired a varied family of religious resources that have had an influence far beyond their use in the churches of a single tradition. The Guide is unique. In it, experts from every part of the globe and every branch of Anglicanism, as well as from the Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Methodist, and Unitarian traditions, provide an unparalleled examination of The Book of Common Prayer and its lineage. Much more than simply a history, this volume describes how Anglican churches at all points of the compass have developed their own Prayer Books and adapted the time-honored Anglican liturgies to their diverse local cultures. In the dozens of editions now in use throughout the world, the same texts--Daily Prayers, the Eucharist, Marriage and Funerals, and many others--resemble each other, and yet differ from each other in interesting ways. A brief look at "electronic Prayer Books" offers a glimpse at how this story of development and adaptation may continue in the Information Age. From 1549 to the twenty-first century, The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer offers a fascinating journey through the history and development of a classic of world literature. "A wonderful and useful book. This book asks all the important questions and provides essential material for those who are looking for answers.". --(The Rev.) Christopher Webber, The Living Church. "It is well conceived physically, graced with both illustrations of historic prayer books and text boxes from the
liturgies being discussed, which are a significant help to the reader. This authoritative guide to the Book of Common Prayer as it once was and has now become will well serve anyone interested in Anglicanism or the prayer book tradition.". --Christian Century. "The editors have assembled a roster of authors that is a veritable who's who among Anglican liturgical scholars. [They] have provided a service to the entire Communion by editing this worldwide survey of the Book of Common Prayer.". --Frank C. Senn, Anglican Theological Review. "Hefling and Shattuck have kept a tight hand; they have maintained narrative interest, eliminated overlaps, discreetly filled holes themselves. Excerpts from specimen prayers and documents are given in boxes on the page. In a big book, room has been found for thirty black-and-white illustrations, a chronology, a glossary, a bibliography, a good index, and a world map in the endpapers.". --John Whale, Times Literary Supplement. "Monumental and magnificent! This Guide makes clear why The Book of Common Prayer is both a religious and a literary masterpiece.". --Phyllis Tickle.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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