... meant that the wonderful accompanying prayer was also deleted, a prayer full of imagery and symbolism about the role of members of the episcopacy: Be to the flocke of Christ a shepeheard, not a wolfe: feede them, deuoure them not; ...
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 ...
And the Priest standing' at the North-side of the Table' shall say the .Lord's Pmyer', with the Collect following, the people. according to the Canonkneeling. ' The Table,] Altar was the name by which the holy board was constantly ...
... ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Margaret A. Boden ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY Madeline Y. Hsu ASTROBIOLOGY David C. Catling ASTROPHYSICS James Binney ATHEISM Julian Baggini THE ATMOSPHERE Paul I. Palmer AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick AUSTRALIA Kenneth ...
... Ball MONASTICISMA Stephen J. Davis THE NAONGOLS Morris Rossabi MOONS David A. Rothery MORMAON | SMA Richard Lyman Bushman M\OUNTAINS Martin F. Price MUHAMMAD Jonathan A. C. Brown M\ULTICULTURALISMA Ali Rattansi MULTILINGUALISMA John ...
An exquisite Deluxe Edition of the Anglican prayer book and literary masterpiece commemorating the 350th anniversary of the 1662 edition intimately familiar to our most enduring writers As essential to the canon as the Bible and the plays ...
The plays of Shakespeare, the Authorized version of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer, all produced in the late 16th/early 17th centuries, are the three dounding texts of...
Many books have been written about the Book of Common Prayer, but this one is uniquely compact, illuminating, and moving."--Edward Mendelson, Columbia University "This book is a pleasure to read.
This is the standard Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church together with The Psalter or Psalms of David according to use in the Episcopal Church in the United States as ...
'2 I will open 'my mouth in a parable' : I will declare hard-sentences of old; 3 Which we have heard and known : and such as our fathers have told us ; 4 That we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come : but to ...
'In the midst of life we are in death.' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the world.
This edition is packaged for gifting, and is ideal for Bible study groups, as well as confirmation and graduation gifts.
For centuries, Christians of different traditions and seekers from various backgrounds have found strength for their spiritual journey in The Book of Common Prayer (BCP).
The Book of Common Prayer is a remarkable book, a sacred book in more than one sense.
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended.