Charles Hefling and Cynthia Shattuck, eds. Oxford University Press Nothing illustrates the evolution of Anglicanism more than the changing role of the Book of Common Prayer. For centuries the prayer ...

LONDON (RNS) — It is the book that gave us such immortal phrases as “till death do us part” and “ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” But nearly 500 years after the creation of the Book of Common Prayer by ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Book of Common Prayer, published after the Reformation in order to make church liturgy available in English. Show more Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ...

The solemnisation of matrimony, best loved and known of the Book of Common Prayer's occasional offices, looks backward and forward. The rite recapitulates, in terms reminiscent of Chaucer's Parson's ...

The Anglican Book of Common Prayer has long been thought to be the work of men only, but a startling discovery has upended that thinking, with news that not one, but two Queens had a hand in the ...

John J. Miller is joined by Patrick Timmis of Hillsdale College to discuss The Book of Common Prayer. Continue reading this article with an NRPLUS subscription. Join today: $6/month Already a member?

In anticipation of English prose after the Commonwealth, I had initially found the temptation to include Robert Hooke’s extraordinary Micrographia (1665) next in this sequence almost overwhelming.

(WCMH) – The Episcopal Church General Convention is considering a measure to expand the use of gender-neutral language for God in the Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer is the text used ...

Many in London gathered May 2 in St. Paul’s Cathedral with Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, to mark the 350th anniversary of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England. The book dates to ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Book of Common Prayer first appeared in 1549, after Henry VIII's break with Rome, but it is the 1662 version that endured for ...