[PDF.41mc] The "Book of Common Prayer": A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books)

The "Book of Common Prayer": A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books)

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 | #43639 in Books |  2013-09-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.75 x4.75 x.75l,.72 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||25 of 27 people found the following review helpful.| An Essential Primer on a Beloved Primer|By Alex|Only those who care so little about religion or religious history that they count it all as nonsense will find anything to dislike about this book. Alan Jacobs has outdone himself in both in the quality of his historical research and the more difficult trick of rendering complicated history in plain language and a merciful page|From Booklist|When his Anglican priest stopped using the Book of Common Prayer in the 1960s, poet W. H. Auden suspected the priest had “gone stark raving mad.” Unfolding the story of how a sixteenth-ce

While many of us are familiar with such famous words as, "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here. . ." or "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," we may not know that they originated with The Book of Common Prayer, which first appeared in 1549. Like the words of the King James Bible and Shakespeare, the language of this prayer book has saturated English culture and letters. Here Alan Jacobs tells its story. Jacobs shows how The Book of Common Prayer--from...

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