The Book(s) of Common Prayer. Its history
I'd like to do some research on the history of the BCP.
I'm interested in its original formation (who what where when and why) and its subsequent offspring.
Why did the Church of England produce the BCP and how did it come into existence?
Why did it change over time and who were the key players in these acts?
What was the fallout of the original formation from both/all sides of the pew/courts and continuing on to its final form?
I'm looking to get this resource, but I'm not too sure if it's a "good read."
The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey
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I haven't read it, but I have it in my Library, so I'll paste the Table of Contents below. I know that Thomas Cranmer was its chief architect, and that he later was executed (along with Ridley and Latimer) for heresy as a Reformer, after several forced recantations which didn't result in clemency, and then a final reversal of his recantations on the eve of his death. It sounds like a very exciting story, and I would like to read more about it someday.
Anyway, Oxford Guides are generally exceedingly well researched and edited.
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[1]
[1] Charles C. Hefling and Cynthia L. Shattuck, eds., The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), vii–ix.
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Evidently, there's a second book, which is part of a set. The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662.
https://www.logos.com/product/162692/the-book-of-common-prayer-the-texts-of-1549-1559-and-1662
https://www.logos.com/product/44546/oxford-studies-on-the-book-of-common-prayer
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Thanks, Rosie, that's quite the TOC. Any idea if the Book deals with the push-back from the Puritans/pre-Reformers and those who were not quite on board with the BCP and some of the Doctrines of the Church of England? The TOC might allude to my questions, but I'm not really up on the subject. Hence my post.
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Hey Dale,
Yep! I looked at getting both, but I'll have to sell more milk to buy the set. Maybe the Survey first and then the other.
Do you have either? And, if so, comments/reviews?
Thanks.
Dale E Heath said:Evidently, there's a second book, which is part of a set. The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662.
https://www.logos.com/product/162692/the-book-of-common-prayer-the-texts-of-1549-1559-and-1662
https://www.logos.com/product/44546/oxford-studies-on-the-book-of-common-prayer
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Sorry, I'm like Rosie, collecting, but not reading. One of these days................[:(]
There is a review on the second volume posted at the book's link.
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Dale E Heath said:Sorry, I'm like Rosie, collecting, but not reading. One of these days................
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Milkman said:
Any idea if the Book deals with the push-back from the Puritans/pre-Reformers and those who were not quite on board with the BCP and some of the Doctrines of the Church of England? The TOC might allude to my questions, but I'm not really up on the subject. Hence my post.
An internal search found 31 mentions of Puritan.
The rest of the mentions seem to be along the same lines. Adding myself to the 'want to read one day' group 😛
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Thanks. Nice quote from the Cheshire curate...[:P]
Yasmin Stephen said:Milkman said:Any idea if the Book deals with the push-back from the Puritans/pre-Reformers and those who were not quite on board with the BCP and some of the Doctrines of the Church of England? The TOC might allude to my questions, but I'm not really up on the subject. Hence my post.
An internal search found 31 mentions of Puritan.
The rest of the mentions seem to be along the same lines. Adding myself to the 'want to read one day' group 😛
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This book is a study of Anglicanism and includes the origins and impetus for the Book of Common Prayer:
The Study of Anglicanism | Logos Bible Software
Also, don't forget to use the Factbook entry on the Book of Common Prayer to lead you to info you may already have in your library.
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Thanks, Kiyah! That looks like a great book and thanks for the Factbook search.
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Kiyah said:This book is a study of Anglicanism and includes the origins and impetus for the Book of Common Prayer:
The Study of Anglicanism | Logos Bible Software
Also, don't forget to use the Factbook entry on the Book of Common Prayer to lead you to info you may already have in your library.
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My first recommendation is
- Blunt, John Henry, ed. The Annotated Book of Common Prayer. Revised and Enlarged Edition. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1889.
and any of these three
- Dearmer, Percy. Everyman’s History of the Prayer Book. London; Oxford; Milwaukee, WI: A. R. Mowbray & Co.; The Young Churchman Co., 1912.
- Pullan, Leighton. The History of the Book of Common Prayer. Edited by W. C. E. Newbolt and F. E. Brightman. The Oxford Library of Practical Theology. London; New York; Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900.
- Maude, J. H. The History of the Book of Common Prayer. Edited by Leighton Pullan. Second Edition. Oxford Church Text Books. London: Rivingtons, 1900.
The world-wide survey you mention is also a favorite
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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My first recommendation is
- Blunt, John Henry, ed. The Annotated Book of Common Prayer. Revised and Enlarged Edition. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1889.
and any of these three
- Dearmer, Percy. Everyman’s History of the Prayer Book. London; Oxford; Milwaukee, WI: A. R. Mowbray & Co.; The Young Churchman Co., 1912.
- Pullan, Leighton. The History of the Book of Common Prayer. Edited by W. C. E. Newbolt and F. E. Brightman. The Oxford Library of Practical Theology. London; New York; Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900.
- Maude, J. H. The History of the Book of Common Prayer. Edited by Leighton Pullan. Second Edition. Oxford Church Text Books. London: Rivingtons, 1900.
The world-wide survey you mention is also a favorite.
As for Puritans, I've avoided them since Rebecca Nurse and Anne Marbury Hutchinson ... their liturgy isn't particularly interesting.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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In addition to MJ's suggestions, here's another book that I found in my library. I haven't read it so I can't vouch for it but here it is.
A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer | Logos Bible Software
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