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 Dictionary. Editors: George Harford and Morley Stevenson. Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1913.

Learning about the historic Book of Common Prayer

If you are the kind of person who likes to know the origin and meaning and especially the worship of the form of Christianity known as The Anglican Way, then this CD is a "must" for you.

On it in digital form are three basic and important books, wherein the great learning which has characterized The Anglican Way is found in a distilled and readable form. All three books were produced before the advent of modem liturgical texts and they represent the very best of what was available to serious students of liturgy and worship before the 1960s.

The Praver Book Dictionary is very difficult to obtain these days. It is a substantial book wherein there is accurate information on a vast number of topics, some of which are not listed or covered in modem dictionaries.

A New History of the Book of Common Prayer comes here in its final edition. For many years it was a required textbook for students of theology, ordinands and clergy.

While the two former books are chiefly concerned with the editions of the BCP up to that of 1662, Liturgy and Worship also deals with editions outside the Church of England, including the U.S.A.

One further point. In these three books one senses a different ethos and attitude towards the classic Prayer Book than is found in modem liturgical study. Here there is great respect and admiration for the Liturgy of Reformed Catholicism and this is supported by sound and accessible learning!