The Oakland Press: Liturgy: The Book of Common Prayer gets glossary for new millennia
The Guardian: The Book of Common Prayer, part 8: Liturgy and society
LONDON – The book gave us such phrases as “till death do us part” and “ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” But nearly 500 years after Archbishop Thomas Cranmer created the Book of Common Prayer, many ...
LONDON (RNS) — It is the book that gave us such immortal phrases as “till death do us part” and “ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” But nearly 500 years after the creation of the Book of Common Prayer by ...
The whole notion of producing a Book of Common Prayer says something significant about the kind of church Thomas Cranmer and his royal patrons believed would best serve the English. Their book defined ...
Except for the King James Bible, no book has done more to influence the lives and language of English-speaking people than the Book of Common Prayer. The first Book of Common Prayer was printed in ...
The Guardian: The Book of Common Prayer, part 7: The joy of being a miserable sinner
The gloomy prayers of the BCP are simply a communal stare over the precipice into an abyss, but from a place of grace The Book of Common Prayer is rooted in the litany. In 1544, preparing to invade ...
The Book of Common Prayer, part 7: The joy of being a miserable sinner
Wall Street Journal: Book Review: 'The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography' by Alan Jacobs