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The ‘Very Pure Word of God’: The Book of Common Prayer as a Model of Biblical Liturgy is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this overview of the Book of Common Prayer, Peter Adam brings us back again and again to its emphasis on the ‘very pure Word of God,’ which set the gold standard and hallmark of all liturgy. This text is a great introduction to the richness of the Book of Common Prayer, its purpose and benefits, and provides an excellent foundation for the rest of the volumes in this collection.

political unity of the nation. The Tudor monarchy was very authoritarian, and we see that reflected in the Church of England of their days, and so in the Prayer Books that they imposed. On the one hand this had the effect of marginalizing Roman Catholics (except of course during the reign of Mary), and on the other hand, of marginalizing Protestants who did not agree with the enforced details of various monarchs’ models of the Reformation. As it was a book for a National Church, it imposed one pattern
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