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Here Alan Jacobs tells its story. Jacobs shows how The Book of Common Prayer --from its beginnings as a means of social and political control in the England of Henry VIII to its worldwide presence today--became a venerable work whose cadences express the heart of religious life for many.
The history of the prayer book is a history of struggles between rival forms and uses, between languages and revisions; and is tied deeply to the shifting occupancy of the English throne. The article also considers the question of how early modern worshipers used their prayer books.
Sep 21, 2017 · The Book of Common Prayer, proscribed during the Interregnum, was revised and reintroduced with a new Act of Uniformity in 1662. Regarded by many English divines as ‘an incomparable liturgy’, it survived the attempts at comprehension in 1689, the exotic dreams of enrichment of the non-jurors, and the doctrinal reductionism of the Newtonians ...
Jacobs shows how The Book of Common Prayer--from its beginnings as a means of social and political control in the England of Henry VIII to its worldwide presence today--became a venerable...
Aug 11, 2015 · Alan Jacobs' The Book of Common Prayer is an impressive balancing act: a history for general readers that manages to be concise, accessible, and engaging without renouncing its academic commitment ...
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Sep 28, 2024 · August Wilson was a playwright who penned an acclaimed cycle of plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century, about Black American life. He won Pulitzer Prizes for two of them: Fences and The Piano Lesson. Learn more about Wilson’s life and works in this article.
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Sep 30, 2013 · With his usual elegance and wit, Jacobs describes Cranmer's political and religious aims, follows debates over the BCP between traditionalists who thought it too Protestant and Puritans who thought it too Catholic, and along the way explains the literary and liturgical qualities of the prayer book.
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