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The Book of Common Prayer: Past, Present and Future The Book of Common Prayer: Past, Present and Future A 350th Anniversary Celebration EdiT Ed By PrudEnCE dailEy Continuum International Publishing Group The Tower Building 80 Maiden lane 11 york road Suite 704 london new york SE1 7nX ny 10038 www.continuumbooks.com This collection © Prudence dailey, 2011 individual contributions © the contributors, 2011 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission from the publishers. First published 2011 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data a catalogue record for this book is available from the British library. iSBn: 978-1-4411-4279-5 Extracts from The Book of Common Prayer, the rights in which are vested in the Crown, are reproduced by permission of the Crown’s Patentee, Cambridge university Press. Typeset by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, norfolk nr21 8nn Contents Foreword: HRH The Prince of Wales vii Section 1: The History of the Book of Common Prayer a Perusal of the History of the Book of Common Prayer 3 Neil Patterson English Society, religion and the Book of Common Prayer 15 Raymond Chapman From Cranmer to Bancroft: The Origin of the Book of Common Prayer 1549–1604 30 David Loades Section 2: The Language of the Book of Common Prayer Through all the Changing Scenes of life: living with the Prayer Book 45 P. D. James Something understood 52 David Curry The Prose and Poetry of the Book of Common Prayer 70 Ian Robinson Section 3: Worshipping with the Book of Common Prayer like Eagles in this life: a Theological reflection on ‘The Order for the administration of the lord’s Supper or Holy Communion’ in the Prayer Books of 1559 and 1662 85 Gavin Dunbar v vi Contents The Bible in the Prayer Book: The Place, the Text, the Teaching and the interpretation of the Bible in the Book of Common Prayer 106 Roger Beckwith The lectionaries in the Book of Common Prayer 117 David Phillips The Book of Common Prayer in a Mixed liturgical Economy 140 Peter Moger Section 4: Mission and the Book of Common Prayer 1662 – Our Evangelical Future? 153 C. Peter Molloy What really drives anglican Mission? 169 George Sumner inspiring young People with the Book of Common Prayer 185 Fredrik Arvidsson Postscript a Very Present Help in Trouble 193 Terry Waite afterword: The Rt Revd & Rt Hon Richard Chartres, Bishop of London 199 acknowledgements 203 Foreword: HRH The Prince of Wales Section 1 The History of the Book of Common Prayer
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