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

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While many people are familiar with such famous words as, “Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here. . .” or “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,” we won’t 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 its beginnings as a means of social and political regulate in the England of Henry VIII to its all over the world presence today–became a venerable work whose cadences express the heart of religious life for plenty of.

The book’s chief maker, Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, created it as the authoritative manual of Christian worship right through England. But as Jacobs recounts, the book has had a variable and dramatic career in the complicated history of English church politics, and has been the point of interest of celebrations, protests, and even jail terms. As time passed, new forms of the book were made to suit the many English-speaking nations: first in Scotland, then in the new United States, and eventually wherever the British Empire extended its arm. Through the years, Cranmer’s book was once adapted for different preferences and purposes. Jacobs vividly demonstrates how one book became many–and how it has shaped the devotional lives of women and men across the globe.

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