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Book resources in the Hennage Library:

The First English Prayer Book (Hants: John Hunt, 1999)  An edition of Thomas Cranmer's 1549 services in an easy-to-read format.

 

Hatchett, Marion J., Commentary on the American Prayer Book (New York:  The Seabury Press, 1981). A companion to the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.

 

Hefling, Charles, and Cynthia Shattuck, eds., The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: A Worldwide Survey (2008). A large collection of articles from many perspectives.


Jacobs, Alan, The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2013). How the BCP came to be written and how it has evolved.

 

Jeffrey, Lee, Opening the Prayer Book, The New Church's Teaching Series, Vol 7 (Cambridge, MA:  Crowley Publications, 1999). An introduction to the history and the liturgies of the Book of Common Prayer.

 

MacCulloch, Diarmaid, Thomas Cranmer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996). A highly-regarded biography of the creator of the Book of Common Prayer.

 

Marshall, Paul V., Prayer Book Parallels: The Public Services of the Church Arranged for Comparative Study (New York:  The Church Hymnal Corporation, 1989). Makes it easy to compare the texts of different versions of the BCP, from 1662 through 1979.

 

Morgan, Dewi, 1662 and All That: Commemorating the Third Centenary of the Book of Common Prayer (London: A.R. Mowbray & Co., Limited & Co., Limited, 1961). An account of the Book of Common Prayer's History--with a British light touch.

 

Stevenson, Kenneth & Bryan Spinks, eds., The Identity of Anglican Worship (Morehouse Group, 1991). A collection of essays.

 

Sydnor, William, The Study of the Real Prayer Book: 1549 to the Present (Wilton, CT: Morehouse Publishing, 1978). Covers the series of revisions, including 1979.

 

Wainwright, Geoffrey & Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, eds., The Oxford History of Christian Worship (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). A comprehensive survey of Christian worship from the beginnings to the present.

 

Weil, Louis, A Theology of Worship, The New Church's Teaching Series, Vol 12 (Cambridge, MA: Crowley Publications, 2022).

 

Westerhoff, John H.  Living Faithfully as a Prayer Book People (Harisburg: Morehouse Publishing, 2004). How the Book of Common Prayer has shaped the Anglican tradition.

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