I heard a voice: the music of the golden age

EMI Classics Audio CD - Anthems by the masters of the Anglican choral tradition in its first century, including Weelkes, Gibbons, Tomkins, performed by "one of today's most accomplished and renowned representatives of the great British Choral Tradition," in the words of one reviewer on Amazon.com.  "This disc features a stirring selection of anthems from the Tudor Times, ...

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An Anglican Prayer Book

Contents: Preface; the Christian Year; Morning and Evening Prayer; The Litany; The Athanasian Creed; Compline; Holy Communion; The Collects and Eucharistic Lectionary; Baptism; The Catechism; Confirmation; Marriage; Visitation of the Sick; Burial of the Dead; Interment or Scattering of Ashes; Family Prayer; Daily Lectionary; The Ordinal -- The Making of Deacons; The Ordin...

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Mortal Follies: Episcopalians And The Crisis of Mainline Christianity

(Encounter Books, hardcover, 208 pp.)

In this important new volume, Mr. Murchison - a nationally syndicated columnist and longtime commentator on Anglican/Episcopal affairs - offers a comprehensive and engaging explanation of what happened to transform The Episcopal Church (TEC) within a few decades from a leading U.S. household of faith once boasting over 3.6 million adherents to a...

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The Oxford History of Christian Worship

This volume is not without faults, but is an important critique of the 20th century Liturgical Movement a la Dixian Hippolytan fundamentalism. The book brings theology, church history and liturgy together, wrote one cleric in a review on Amazon.com. "As is often the case with such texts from Oxford, it is comprehensive, authoritative, well illustrated, well documented, and well constructed...

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The Altar Service Book of the BCP (1928)

The Celebrant at the Holy Table/Altar needs a Prayer Book to use that has large print, opens fully, has rubrics in red and text in black, is durable, and is pleasant to hold and to see. In The Altar Service Book such is now available.

It is bound in fine red leather and printed on superior paper. It is the same format and quality as the previous OUP edition. Good also as a "Coffee T...

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William Tyndale: If God Spare My Life

Tyndale, heroic father of the English Bible tradition, has had a much-deserved revival of interest. This is a highly readable biography. "Should be required reading for anyone interested in English history, Church history, or Bible translation," writes a reviewer on Amazon.com. "A great read, a wonderful introduction to Tyndale, and an inspiration to 'fight the good fight.'" 

Austin Farrer: Essential Sermons

Austin Farrer, Warden of Keble College, philosophical theologian, and C. S. Lewis’ pastor, was probably the greatest Anglican preacher of the 20th century.  Despite some liberal catholic weaknesses characteristic of his generation (on the doctrine of the Atonement, for instance), Farrer is one of the giants of Anglicanism’s mid-20th century Indian summer. The original collectio...

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The Anglican Formularies and Holy Scripture

The Anglican Way is based squarely first on the Holy Scriptures and then upon the Formularies - the classic Book of Common Prayer, the Articles and the Ordinal.

This essay carefully explains this sure Foundation, how the Formularies are connected to the Scriptures, and how all are very relevant for today in the crisis of Anglicanism in America.

The Book of Common Prayer — Its History, Use and Terms

Three books on this CD:

Liturgy and Worship, a Companion to the Prayer Books of the Anglican Communion, edited by W. K. Lowther Clarke. SPCK, 1954 [from 1932].

A New History of the Book of Common Prayer with a Rationale of its Offices, by Francis Procter. Revised and rewritten by Walter Howard Frere. Macmillan, 1955.

The Prayer Book Dict...

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