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THE REFORMATION ANGLICANISM ESSENTIAL LIBRARY

VOLUME 4

REFORMATION ANGLICAN WORSHIP

Experiencing Grace, Expressing Gratitude

MICHAEL P. JENSEN

wheaton, illinois

Reformation Anglican Worship: Experiencing Grace, Expressing Gratitude

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First printing 2021

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Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4335-7297-5

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Jensen, Michael P. (Michael Peter), 1970– author.

Title: Reformation Anglican worship : experiencing grace, expressing gratitude / Michael P. Jensen

Description: Wheaton, Illinois : Crossway, 2021. | Series: The Reformation Anglicanism essential library ; volume 4 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: LCSH: Public worship—Anglican Communion—History.

Classification: LCC BX5141 .J46 2021 (print) | LCC BX5141 (ebook) | DDC 264/.03009—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020038979

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Crossway is a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

THE REFORMATION ANGLICANISM ESSENTIAL LIBRARY

Edited by Ashley Null and John W. Yates III

For my sons

Contents

Introduction

1 The Heart of Christian Worship

2 Worship in the English Reformation

3 Reading and Preaching the Scriptures

4 The Gospel Signs: The Sacraments

5 Prayers of Grace

6 Music: The Word in Song

Introduction

Yet because there is no remedy, but that of necessity there must be some rules: therefore certain rules are here set forth, which as they be few in number; so they be plain and easy to be understood. So yet here you have an order for prayer (as touching the reading of holy scripture) much agreeable to the mind and purpose of the old fathers, and a great deal more profitable and commodious, than that which of late was used. It is more profitable, because here are left out many things, whereof some be untrue, some uncertain, some vain and superstitious: and is ordained nothing to be read, but the very pure word of God, the holy scriptures, or that which ...

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About Reformation Anglican Worship: Experiencing Grace, Expressing Gratitude

The formation of the Anglican church on February 20, 1547, was nothing short of a revolution for worship. For believers to worship God biblically, they needed to reject the unbiblical—and often idolatrous—practices of the time. What ensued from the formation of the Anglican church was a community of worship in line with the Reformation gospel. Liturgy, far from being built upon the works of people, was to be grounded upon what God had revealed in Scripture.

In this addition to the Reformation Anglicanism Essential Library, Anglican scholar Michael P. Jensen showcases how the reading and preaching of the Scriptures, the sacraments, prayer, and singing inform not only Anglican worship, but worship as it is prescribed in the Bible.

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