Book of Common Prayer (eBook)

A Biography

Alan Jacobs (Autor)

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2013
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4802-7 (ISBN)

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Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University. He is the author of several books, including The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Oxford) and Original Sin: A Cultural History (HarperOne), and he has edited W. H. Auden's long poems For the Time Being and The Age of Anxiety (both Princeton).Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University. He is the author of several books, including The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Oxford) and Original Sin: A Cultural History (HarperOne), and he has edited W. H. Auden's long poems For the Time Being and The Age of Anxiety (both Princeton).

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How The Book of Common Prayer became one of the most influential works in the English languageWhile many of us are familiar with such famous words as, "e;Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here. . ."e; or "e;Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,"e; we may not know that they originated with The Book of Common Prayer, which first appeared in 1549. Like the words of the King James Bible and Shakespeare, the language of this prayer book has saturated English culture and letters. 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 book's chief maker, Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, created it as the authoritative manual of Christian worship throughout England. But as Jacobs recounts, the book has had a variable and dramatic career in the complicated history of English church politics, and has been the focus of celebrations, protests, and even jail terms. As time passed, new forms of the book were made to suit the many English-speaking nations: first in Scotland, then in the new United States, and eventually wherever the British Empire extended its arm. Over time, Cranmer's book was adapted for different preferences and purposes. Jacobs vividly demonstrates how one book became many--and how it has shaped the devotional lives of men and women across the globe.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Lives of Great Religious Books
• Reihe/Serie: Lives of Great Religious Books
• Zusatzinfo: 6 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: Alternative Service Book • Anglican Communion • Anglicanism • Anglo-Catholicism • archbishop • Archbishop of Canterbury • Archdeacon • Articles of Religion (Methodist) • Baptism • Bible • Book of Common Prayer • breviary • Calvinism • Canonical hours • Catholic Church • Catholicism • Chancel • Chaplain • Christian • Christian Church • Christianity • Christian worship • church discipline • Church Fathers • Church of England • Church of South India • Clergy • Common Worship • congregational church • consecration • C. S. Lewis • damnation • Diarmaid MacCulloch • Disputation • Doctrine • early modern period • English Reformation • Eucharist • Evening Prayer (Anglican) • Folger Shakespeare library • God • Great Bible • Gregory Dix • Heresy • High Church • Horae Canonicae • Impediment (canon law) • John Henry Newman • Justification (theology) • Latitudinarian • layperson • Lectionary • Lesslie Newbigin • Litany • Liturgy • lord's prayer • Low Church • Lutheranism • Methodism • New Testament • Old Testament • Oliver Cromwell • Ordination • Oxford Movement • Oxford University Press • Pamphlet • Parish Church • People of God • Pope • Prayer • Prayer book • Prayer for the dead • Preface (liturgy) • Presbyterianism • Princeton University Press • printing • Prose • Protestantism • Psalms • Puritans • Recusancy • religious experience • religious text • Richard Hooker • Rite • Roman Catholic (term) • Sacrament • Sermon • Sola Fide • Spirituality • Theology • The Stripping of the Altars • Thirty-nine Articles • Thomas Cranmer • Tracts for the Times • Traditionalist Catholic • transubstantiation • Typeface • vestment • Worship
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4802-4 / 1400848024
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4802-7 / 9781400848027