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Church of England

Author of The Book of Common Prayer [1953]

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Works by Church of England

The Book of Common Prayer (1965) 366 copies
The Alternative Service Book 1980 (1980) — Author — 267 copies
Patterns for Worship (1989) 48 copies
The Mystery of Salvation (1995) 42 copies
An English Prayer Book (1994) 34 copies
We Believe in God (1987) 30 copies
Church and the Bomb (1982) 24 copies
In Tune with Heaven (1992) 18 copies
Anglican Hymn Book (1965) 16 copies
Eucharist Presidency (1997) 16 copies
Book of Homilies (2008) 15 copies
All are Called (1984) 14 copies
Ageing (1990) 12 copies
Funeral (2000) 11 copies
The Revised Catechism (1996) 6 copies
The Shorter Prayer Book (1947) 6 copies
From Power to Partnership (1991) 5 copies
Resourcing Archbishops (2002) 5 copies
Stranger in the wings (1999) 5 copies
Liturgical Texts, Modern (1968) 4 copies
Sunday Service Book (1988) 4 copies
Work and the Future (GS) (1979) 3 copies
The Thirty-Nine Articles (2012) 3 copies
Setting the Agenda (1999) 3 copies
Articles of Religion (2018) 2 copies
Common Prayer 2 copies
Common Prayer Hymns A&M (1920) 2 copies
Making Unity More Visible (2002) 2 copies
The Revised Catechism (1996) 2 copies
Infant baptism : a report (1975) 2 copies
The Anglican Missal (2014) 1 copy
CEBS song book (1972) 1 copy
Christmas Carols (1959) 1 copy
Happy Birthday Anyway! (1995) 1 copy
Pre-conceived Ideas (1996) 1 copy
Final report 1 copy
The Anglican Ordinal (2010) 1 copy
Funeral services (1975) 1 copy

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kristi_test_02 | Feb 23, 2024 |
Basically an essential companion if you want to understand how the Reformation turned out in England. More compact and weighs less than the Bible!
 
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datrappert | Oct 28, 2022 |
Good/fair Cover "Deborah Haskins, 1786" Inscribed inside "Deborah Haskins 1786"
 
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GoshenMAHistory | 1 other review | Apr 4, 2022 |
This is a sensible edition of the texts of The Book of Common Prayer that were edited in 1549, 1559, and 1662. It's far better as a reference work than a commentary. More on that later.

The Good: The quality of this volume is what you would expect from Oxford, but at a more reasonable price— attractively bound and printed. The texts themselves are accurate and the editorial choices made by Cummings are considered. Cummings wisely refuses to fall into the trap of reproducing original spellings of the texts (there are numerous variants in early Modern English), but hews closely to the original punctuation.

The Bad: The Propers for the Day (the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels) are not included. This appears to have been a compromise to prevent the book from getting too unwieldy. A far worse gaffe is the Introduction. Cummings' theology presents several serious problems. One is that he is trapped in the modern conundrum of thinking that Protestant is the opposite of Catholic. Another is the notion that 'the Prayer Book was written in “the ordinary language of its time”', a rather severe error. The concept of the Reformation as a return to primitive Christianity, and the corresponding claim to the patristic *consensus fidelium*, is foreign to him.

I wanted badly to give this book five stars when I obtained a copy, but it was not to be. I feel that this would be especially valuable for non-Anglicans who probably do not have the three included BCP texts as separate volumes, and are better read on the Reformation sources. It is less valuable to serious Anglicans who may have the English Prayer Book Society's edition of 1549 and 1552 in one volume, and John Booty's scholarly edition of 1559. If you have those books, you won't need this. Otherwise, I recommend it.
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