"A message to the Archbishops and Presiding Bishops of the Anglican Communion concerning the Anglican Way in America". -- front cover.
"We are Episcopalians & Anglicans in the United States of America, who have the particular chosen vocation to keep the tradition of THE COMMON PRAYER -- its use and understanding alive and well. We are the Board of Directors of the Prayer Book Society, which exists to maintain the historic and classic `Book of Common Prayer' (1662/1789/1928) both as a Formulary of the Anglican Way and as a Prayer Book in daily use today". -- Preface, p. 7.
"We ask you, before you make any final decisions about whether or not to press (a) for the provision of 'Flying Bishops' within the E.C.U.S.A. to minister to traditional parishes or (b) for the creation of an entirely new Province of the Anglican Communion in North America, carefully to consider the historical evidence, theological considerations and practical concerns we present to you in the chapters of this book". -- Preface, pp. 8-9.
"The book has been written for us by Dr. Peter Toon and Dr. Louis Tarsitano, who also were the authors of the book, 'The Way, the Truth and the Life. The Anglican Walk with Jesus Christ (St. Peter Publications, Canada) which, in collaboration with the Prayer Book Societies of Australia, Canada and England, we sent to you and all bishops of the Anglican Communion at the time of the Lambeth Conference of 1998." -- Preface, p. 9.
Contents divided into three main parts: The Formation of the American Church -- The Necessity of the Formularies -- The Worship of Almighty God.
Contents: Preface / The Board of Directors of the Prayer Book Society [Philadelphia, Pa.] -- Part One: The Formation of the American Church -- A First Draft of the Anglican Communion -- The American Communion from 1789 -- International Communion and the Formularies -- Part Two: The Necessity of Formularies -- Forms, Formulas and Formularies -- Creation in Form and Shape -- Part Three: The Worship of Almighty God -- The Prayer Book and the Ordinal -- Common Prayer and the Book of Common Prayer -- Epilogue -- Appendix I : A Call for a "Continental Congress" of American Anglicans -- Appendix II : The Virginia Report and Unity -- Appendix III : Does one lead to the other ? Divorce and Remarriage and Homosexual Partnerships.
"A message to the Archbishops and Presiding Bishops of the Anglican Communion concerning the Anglican Way in America". -- front cover.
"We are Episcopalians & Anglicans in the United States of America, who have the particular chosen vocation to keep the tradition of THE COMMON PRAYER -- its use and understanding alive and well. We are the Board of Directors of the Prayer Book Society, which exists to maintain the historic and classic `Book of Common Prayer' (1662/1789/1928) both as a Formulary of the Anglican Way and as a Prayer Book in daily use today". -- Preface, p. 7.
"We ask you, before you make any final decisions about whether or not to press (a) for the provision of 'Flying Bishops' within the E.C.U.S.A. to minister to traditional parishes or (b) for the creation of an entirely new Province of the Anglican Communion in North America, carefully to consider the historical evidence, theological considerations and practical concerns we present to you in the chapters of this book". -- Preface, pp. 8-9.
"The book has been written for us by Dr. Peter Toon and Dr. Louis Tarsitano, who also were the authors of the book, 'The Way, the Truth and the Life. The Anglican Walk with Jesus Christ (St. Peter Publications, Canada) which, in collaboration with the Prayer Book Societies of Australia, Canada and England, we sent to you and all bishops of the Anglican Communion at the time of the Lambeth Conference of 1998." -- Preface, p. 9.
Contents divided into three main parts: The Formation of the American Church -- The Necessity of the Formularies -- The Worship of Almighty God.
Contents: Preface / The Board of Directors of the Prayer Book Society [Philadelphia, Pa.] -- Part One: The Formation of the American Church -- A First Draft of the Anglican Communion -- The American Communion from 1789 -- International Communion and the Formularies -- Part Two: The Necessity of Formularies -- Forms, Formulas and Formularies -- Creation in Form and Shape -- Part Three: The Worship of Almighty God -- The Prayer Book and the Ordinal -- Common Prayer and the Book of Common Prayer -- Epilogue -- Appendix I : A Call for a "Continental Congress" of American Anglicans -- Appendix II : The Virginia Report and Unity -- Appendix III : Does one lead to the other ? Divorce and Remarriage and Homosexual Partnerships.
A brief description of the history and significance of the Book of Common Prayer including mention of the incorporation of elements from the Spanish Mozarabic Rite and editions of the American Book of Common Prayer.
Contents: Otros aires de reforma -- La obra de Thomas Cranmer -- Otras influencias hispanas en el libro -- Ediciones del Libro de Oracion Comun.
Author is an Episcopal priest and "es misionero en la Diocesis de Atlanta, consultor para el apostolado hispano y autor de varia obras". -- back page.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-274) and index.
"The consequences of these discoveries is that a separate work needs to be devoted to Bishop Seabury and the liturgical and constitutional crises of 1784 through 1790, and that the other revisions receive treatment later. This brought a final surprise: There emerged a great deal to admire about an unpopular person whose politics and liturgical theology many have portrayed as unhelpful, eccentric, or dangerous. .... Over the past three centuries, formal liturgical studies have been primarily concerned with the evolution of texts, for good reason. On that foundation scholars have been able to ask more complex questions. The present work is undertaken in the belief that circumstances and processes count as much as texts in understanding the development of Christian liturgy, and that consideration of these factors is a basic and essential task in historical treatments of the liturgy". -- Preface.
Contents: Preface dated November 14, 2002 / +PM -- Key to Abbreviations in the Notes -- Samuel Seabury among the Revisionists -- Another World: the Connecticut Church -- The Search for an American Ecclesiology -- Character -- Middletown -- The Southern Prayer Book -- The Communion Office of 1786 -- Difficult People -- Slouching Toward Unity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Appendix (on CD-ROM).
Contents of Appendix: A-1: Middletown, Boston and the Proposed Book -- A-2: The Structure and Content of the Book -- A-3: Individual Alterations -- A-4: The Communion Office -- A-5: Convention Deputations -- B-1: Letters (Various Correspondence of the Period) -- C-1 to C-5: Various Historical Documents (including the Concordat with Scotland) -- Appendix C-6: "First Mitre in the West" -- Appendix D: Printed Works of Samuel Seabury.
CD-Rom entitled "One, Catholic, and Apostolic APPENDIX" in plastic sleeve on inside back cover.
"'Prayer Book Parallels' arranges the texts of the public services and pastoral offices of the 1979 'Book of Common Prayer' in columns parallel to their structural and textual predecessors. Additional noted identify smaller changes in the texts and provide additional liturgical material. .... [It] is also designed to be used with Brightmann's 'The English Rite', enabling the reader to compare the text of the English and American liturgical tradition from 1549 through 1979". -- back of dust jacket.
"This volume brings to a close 'Prayer Book Parallels', the first part of Anglican Liturgy in America'. .... this volume has gone beyond expectations in a number of ways. The reader will find that earlier sources and better texts for the ancient collects are supplied than were available to Brightman when 'The English Rite' was prepared. Modern sources for the newer collects have also been located and presented here with their authors identified. Some collects can be seen to have textual sources not previously identified by commentators. Finally, the preparation of the Psalter has proven to be a fascinating study: the text itself, like its versification and visual presentation, has gone through more evolution than we sometimes suppose when we imagine that the Coverdale version continued unmodified until 1979". -- Intro.
Contents: Introduction / dated New Haven, Holy Cross Day [14 September]. 1990 -- The Collects, Part One -- The Collects, Part Two -- Family Prayer -- Prayers at Sea -- Articles of Religion -- The Psalter -- Texts and Documents.
Revised edition (1989) of text first published in 1978 and recommended as "eminently readable" history of "the Book of Common Prayer in its many revisions in England and America from 1549 through 1979".
"Festschrift in honour of John Everett [i.e. Everitt] Booty". -- CIP, verso of t.-p.
Includes bibliographical references but NO index.
Contains eighteen articles by eighteen authors.
Contents: Contributors -- Acknowledgements / Donald S. Armentrout -- Cranmer on the open heart / Stephen W. Sykes -- A Call to Adventure : Seven Propositions on Ministry / J. Neil Alexander -- George Herbert's Poetry of Transformation / Julia M. Gatta -- John Keble : Grammarian of Piety / Royal W. Rhodes -- "Mt. Sion in a Wilderness" : A Profile of Pilgrim Spirituality / Timothy George -- Doctor Pearson Construes the Apostles' Creed : A Note on Method and Matter in Christology / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Benjamin Franklin's Prayer Book / Marion J. Hatchett -- Distant and Different : Catholics and Anti-Catholics in Some Victorian Novels / Peggy R. Ellsberg -- "The Work and Life of His Kingdom" : Southern Episcopalians and the Lost Cause / Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. -- Hooker's "Fair Speeche" : Rhetorical Strategies in the "Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Polity" / John N. Wall -- The Judicious Mr. Hooker and the Early Christians : The Relationship of Scripture and Reason in the First Century of the Christian Era / John Michael Christopher Bryan -- The Scriptural Hermeneutics of Richard Hooker : Historical Contextualization and Teleology / William P. Haugaard -- Anglicanism's Appreciation of Visual Art / Horton Davies -- Protestant Women as Victims and Subjects : Reformation Legacies from John Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" / Fredrica Harris Thompsett -- The Synod of Dort and the Early Stuart Church / W. Brown Patterson -- Prelude to the Condemnations of Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer : Heresy, Humanism, Controversy, and Conscience in Early Reformation Oxford / Guy F. Lytle, III -- Prolegomena to a Study of Anglican Ecclesiology / J. Robert Wright -- John Everett Booty / Donald S. Armentrout -- Bibliography of John E. Booty.
"Festschrift in honour of John Everett [i.e. Everitt] Booty". -- CIP, verso of t.-p.
Includes bibliographical references but NO index.
Contains eighteen articles by eighteen authors.
Contents: Contributors -- Acknowledgements / Donald S. Armentrout -- Cranmer on the open heart / Stephen W. Sykes -- A Call to Adventure : Seven Propositions on Ministry / J. Neil Alexander -- George Herbert's Poetry of Transformation / Julia M. Gatta -- John Keble : Grammarian of Piety / Royal W. Rhodes -- "Mt. Sion in a Wilderness" : A Profile of Pilgrim Spirituality / Timothy George -- Doctor Pearson Construes the Apostles' Creed : A Note on Method and Matter in Christology / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Benjamin Franklin's Prayer Book / Marion J. Hatchett -- Distant and Different : Catholics and Anti-Catholics in Some Victorian Novels / Peggy R. Ellsberg -- "The Work and Life of His Kingdom" : Southern Episcopalians and the Lost Cause / Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. -- Hooker's "Fair Speeche" : Rhetorical Strategies in the "Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Polity" / John N. Wall -- The Judicious Mr. Hooker and the Early Christians : The Relationship of Scripture and Reason in the First Century of the Christian Era / John Michael Christopher Bryan -- The Scriptural Hermeneutics of Richard Hooker : Historical Contextualization and Teleology / William P. Haugaard -- Anglicanism's Appreciation of Visual Art / Horton Davies -- Protestant Women as Victims and Subjects : Reformation Legacies from John Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" / Fredrica Harris Thompsett -- The Synod of Dort and the Early Stuart Church / W. Brown Patterson -- Prelude to the Condemnations of Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer : Heresy, Humanism, Controversy, and Conscience in Early Reformation Oxford / Guy F. Lytle, III -- Prolegomena to a Study of Anglican Ecclesiology / J. Robert Wright -- John Everett Booty / Donald S. Armentrout -- Bibliography of John E. Booty.