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"Cranmer's Godly Order" is a classic...revised and expanded by Mr. Davies during his final years. Drawing upon the best of Catholic and Protestant scholarship and on primary sources, Davies traces the steps by which the ancient Catholic Mass became the Lord's Supper in the Church of England. And these steps were changes - as Popes and Reformers alike were at pains to stress. Michael Davies shows that Henry VIII and Thomas Cranmer understood that if you change the way people pray, then you will change what they believe. Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer (1549) began a process that changed the Catholic Church in England to the Anglican sect. Davies compares these changes to the modern liturgical "reforms" and the similarities are shocking.Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII and Edward VI and architect of the new liturgy, was a master of the theology of the Mass, and hated it. The parallels between the Anglican liturgy and the New Mass of the 1960s will be uncomfortably obvious!This book forms volume one of Davies's "Liturgical Revolution" series. Nowhere will you find a more thorough example of the axiom "Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi est" - "As you pray, so will you believe."372pp. Color hardcover, illustrated. No library descriptions found. |
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Cranmer knew from the European Reformation that he had to destroy the Catholic Mass with his liturgical reforms developed in his Book of Common Prayer. In this new book Cranmer chronicles the steps taken to change the ancient Catholic Mass into the Anglican sects Lord’s Supper. The author also compares this destruction of the Mass to the modern liturgical reforms from the ancient Catholic Mass to the New ‘Mass” used today. You will see how shockingly similar the process was. ( )