Primitive Worship and the Prayer Book: Rationale, History, and Doctrine of the English, Irish, Scottish, and American Books (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Gwynne, Walker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1333982151 ISBN 13: 9781333982157

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from Primitive Worship and the Prayer Book: Rationale, History, and Doctrine of the English, Irish, Scottish, and American Books

N apology may seem to be needed for another manual on Church Worship. It is evident, however, to any one who takes up the serious study of the Prayer Book, which, next to the English Bible, is the greatest classic in the language, that in almost every volume on the subject the rationale, and the authority Of Holy Scripture and the Primitive Church have been assumed, or else almost wholly overlooked. Nevertheless, in the vast majority of cases, not only among converts to the Church's ways, but among intelligent laymen, Churchmen by tradition, the first and most important things to know are why we use a book Of worship at all, and on what fundamental principles, apart from mere aesthetic or personal preference, the volume which we call the Book Of Common Prayer, and our in comparable Liturgy, is based.

It is greatly to the honor of the English Church that she has had SO many and SO able liturgical scholars who, for the last three centuries, have created a new field of theological study. The Object Of the present volume is to utilize this vast store of buried learning, SO that the general reader, as well as teacher and candidate for Holy Orders, may have a book of modest dimensions that will give a bird's-eye view of the subject. To the student it may serve as an intro duction to a more exact study later on Of those treasures Of devotion which, in all ages Of the Church, and in many tongues, have been the censers on which have been laid the heart thoughts and petitions of martyrs and saints, and those myriads of unnamed servants of our Lord who are now with Him in Paradise.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1333982151
• ISBN 13: 9781333982157
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 454