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Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer A Worldwide Survey

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ISBN-10: 0195297563

ISBN-13: 9780195297560

Edition: 2006

Authors: Charles Hefling, Cynthia Shattuck

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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…    
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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 640
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.508
Language: English

Worship by the book
Cranmer and common prayer
The prayer book 'noted'
From Elizabeth I to Charles II
Early translations
The 'liturgy of comprehension'
The shape of the classical book of common prayer
The state services
The prayer book and the parish church : from the Elizabethan settlement to the restoration
The prayer book and the parish church : from the restoration to the Oxford movement
Prayer book architecture
Prayer books and printers
The prayer book as 'sacred text'
The prayer book as literature
Plantations, missions, and colonies
Scotland : Episcopalians and nonjurors
The colonies and states of America
British North America and Canada
Southern Africa
Ireland
John Wesley and the Methodists
King's Chapel and the Unitarians
Churches in the continuing Anglican tradition
The prayer book and Lutheranism
The winds of change
The prayer book 'crisis' in England
The legacy of the church of South India
The liturgical movement and its consequences
Preserving the classical prayer books
Inculturation and Anglican worship
Anglican liturgies in Eastern Africa
The Anglican church of Kenya
The church of Nigeria : the book of common prayer
The church of Nigeria : occasional services
Central African prayer books
The province of Southern Africa
Other African provinces : Burundi, Rwanda, and Congo
The Anglican church of Australia
The Anglican church in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Polynesia
From Te Rawiri to the New Zealand prayer book
The church of Melanesia
The Anglican church of Papua New Guinea
Hawaii
The Episcopal church in the U.S.A.
Native American translations
The Anglican church of Canada
Indigenous Canadian translations
The province of the West Indies
The book of common prayer in Spanish
The Episcopal church in the Philippines
Japan : Nippon Sei Ko Kai
The Chinese prayer book
The Anglican church of Korea
The province of Myanmar (Burma)
The Episcopal church in Jerusalem and the Middle East
The church of England : common worship
The Scottish Episcopal church
The church in Wales
The church of Ireland
Anglican churches in Europe
Anglicans and liturgical revision
The daily office
The eucharist
Sanctifying time : the calendar
Rites of initiation
Catechisms
Marriage
Funeral rites
Anglican ordinals
The book of common prayer and technology
The prayer book in cyberspace
The future of common prayer