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The Book of Common Prayer | ||||||
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The major revisions:The 1662 Book of Common Prayer 1559
Book of Common Prayer 1552
Book of Common Prayer 1549
Book of Common Prayer Alternative Service Book (ASB): several sections available in RTF format; other Church of England liturgical resources are available here as well. Holy Communion, First Series (1967): The first steps leading up to the Alternative Service Book. News of Liturgy archive: All issues of the newsletter, which primarily focussed on Church of Englad liturgy, and was published from 1975-2003. Portions of the Book of Common Prayer in Cornish (1980) Anglo-Catholic Liturgies: From the early to mid-1900's a number of unofficial Communion Liturgies were published, primarily for use by Anglo-Catholic parishes. These include: A New Mass Book for the Laity (1965) The Shorter Prayer Book (1946) The Churchpeople's Prayer Book (1935) From Wales, but also used in England. Common Prayer for Children (1931) The [1662] Holy Communion rearranged to follow the Order of Communoin 1548 and the 1549 BCP, by Edward C. Ratcliff (1931). 1928 Proposed Book of Common Prayer. Approved by the Church, but rejected by Parliament.
A Prayer Book Revised, a proposed revision from 1913, said to be by Percy Dearmer, along Anglo-Catholic lines. (from the Internet Archive) The English Rite, by FE Brightman (1915): A four-column comparison of the 1549, 1552 and 1662 BCP's and their original sources, plus an extensive introduction. A classic study of the Engoish BCP. Abridgement of the Book of Common Prayer (1773): A proposal from Benjamin Franklin & Sir Francis Dashwood. Liturgies of the Nonjurors: The Communion office, a BCP, and descriptions of these 18th-century liturgies. 1689 Proposed Book of Common Prayer: The "Liturgy of Comprehension" - an unsuccessful attempt to create a prayer book which could be accepted by a wide spectrum of Anglican and Protestant Christians. Forms for the Consecration of Churches and Churchyards, by Lancelot Andrewes (1620), and as passed by Convocation (1712). Jeremy Taylor's
Communion Office (1658) Merbeke's
Book of Common Prayer Noted (1550) The
Order for the Communion 1548 The Two Books of Homilies (1547 & 1563) Exhortation
& Litany (1544) The Sarum Missal: The Communion service commonly used in the English Church before the Book of Common Prayer; in Latin and English translation. The Directory for the Public Worship of God, which replaced the Book of Common Prayer between 1645 and 1660, is more of an outline of worship than a fixed liturgy, in keeping with its Puritan background. It is available online, from (not surprisingly) two conservative Presbyterian groups, the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Google Books has an original 1645 printing online, in PDF graphics. |
Links in bold are on this site.
"Griffiths" refers to books listed in David Griffiths' Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer.
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Last Updated: 11 November 2020
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