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 ...

Alan Jacobs explains why the nearly 500-year-old Anglican prayer book retains its influence, and why it should appeal even to (non-Anglican) evangelicals. The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) has had an ...

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The investigative powers of science and art have combined to identify a bejeweled Book of Hours in Trinity College Cambridge’s collection as belonging to English statesman Thomas Cromwell, who served ...

While this is a brilliant book, it's not quite the one its subtitle leads the reader to expect. "The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age" seems to suggest a history of the making and ...

The personal prayer book of King Richard III — in which the English king likely scrawled a reminder of his birthday in his own hand — is now available to peruse online. Leicester Cathedral digitized ...

With the proliferation of new prayer books in recent years, U.S. synagogues are struggling to figure out what to do with all their old volumes. JTA’s Chavie Lieber reports. NEW YORK (JTA) — After ...

The book that the bishops are voting to create will be a compilation of those prayers, drawn from multiple sources traditionally used in ministry to the sick. Only priests are allowed to perform the ...