Book of Common Prayer Collection (17 vols.)

Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, organized the first two editions of the Book of Common Prayer, authorized under King Edward VI during the Reformation in 1549 and 1552. With the death of Edward VI, Mary I restored Roman Catholic worship and Cranmer was burned at the stake, but Book of Common Prayer would survive. This volume brings together these historically important texts:

• The Order of Communion, 1548
• The Book of Common Prayer, 1549
• The Form and Manner of Making and Consecrating of Archbishops, Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, 1549
• The Book of Common Prayer, 1552
• The Primer, or Book of Private Prayer, 1553
• A Short Catechism, 1553
• Catechismus Brevis, 1553

After Mary I of England's death, her half-sister and successor, Elisabeth I, restored Protestantism and reissued the Book of Common Prayer with slight changes. Important differences include changes to the wording in the administration of the Holy Communion. Benham's introduction gives an in-depth history of the reasons these changes occurred during this tumultuous period of English history.

This edition of the Book of Common Prayer was instituted with the Act of Uniformity 1662, only two years after the restoration of the monarchy. It made the use of the Book of Common Prayer compulsory, and led to the protest and expulsion of almost two-thousand clergymen from the Church of England who refused to recognize it. It included the readings for the Psalter for the very first time

Having been established in the United States in 1607, the Episcopal Church separated itself from the Church of England in 1789 and produced its own Book of Common Prayer. The 1789 version contained many changes, and incorporated language from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer and the Scottish Liturgy of 1764.

The Book of Common Prayer underwent further revision in 1892, modernizing some of the arcane language and giving ministers more discretion in choosing lessons.

The 1928 prayer book was the Protestant Episcopal Church’s third prayer book. This would be the last official prayer book that would solely retain the formal/traditional language similarly used by the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer. Although the 1928 Book of Common Prayer was replaced with a newer edition, some churches still use it regularly or occasionally, despite the formal adoption of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer by the church.

The 1979 Book of Common Prayer is the current and official Book of Common Prayer for the Episcopal Church. This book contained significant revisions, including the use of contemporary language, that many found controversial. Many Anglican parishes still use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, still other churches welcomed the revisions, feeling they were needed in order to respond to changing social conditions and ongoing research and discoveries about biblical and church history.

This volume brings over 600 hymns and their musical compositions together in one volume for use with the Book of Common Prayer. The editors included Charles Vincent, organist of Christ Church, D. J. Wood, organist of Exeter Cathedral, and Sir John Stainer, a professor of music at the University of Oxford.

King's Chapel was organized as an Anglican congregation in 1686. In 1782, Harvard graduate James Freeman was hired as a lay reader for the church during a time when it lacked a leader. He introduced Unitarian ideas in his preaching, and in 1785 the congregation accepted the revisions he had introduced to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. Although the church still considered itself Episcopalian, the Bishop that represented the Anglican church refused to ordain Freeman, so the congregation ordained him themselves—a practice the independent Unitarian church still follows today, along with their use of the Book of Common Prayer According to the Use of King's Chapel.

In 1564, The Liturgy of John Knox replaced the Second Book of Edward VI, otherwise known as the 1552 edition of the Book of Common Prayer, as the uniform prayer book for the Reformed Church of Scotland. This edition contains the original language and phraseology of the 1564 edition.

The Liturgy of John Knox officially became known as the Book of Common Order. This edition from 1890 is the sixth edition, and is divided into three main sections:

• Part 1: The Lectionary and Services for the Five Sundays of the Month
• Part 2: Containing Additional Materials for Dail and Other Services
• Part 3: The Administration of the Sacraments and Other Ordinances of the Church

This work is an attempt to gather into one volume all the most important information that is extant respecting the devotional system of the Church of England as founded on the Book of Common Prayer. This history of the Book of Common Prayer and its variations includes illustrations, a chronological table, three appendixes, an index for the entire volume, and an extensive glossary.

Gasquet and Bishop examine the origin and early history of the 1549 and 1552 editions of the Book of Common Prayer.

In fifteen well articulated essays, Dickinson explains the various histories of portions of the Book of Common Prayer. Dickinson pays particular attention to the revisions made over the decades, and explores how close the current editions relate to the originals. Dickinson originally delivered these lectures at the Parish Church of St. Anne, Dublin.

This volume offers twenty-four sermons from Edward Monro on the Book of Common Prayer and its teachings, including its teachings on the Eucharist, the Lord's Supper, visitation of the sick, Baptism, church functions, and more.

Drawn up after the model of the liturgical services of the Church of England, the Manual of Family Devotions provides daily family prayers and the proper Psalms to study on certain holy days.

The Prayer Book Dictionary deals with the origins, history, use, and teaching of the several authorized editions of the Book of Common Prayer within the Anglican Communion. Its scope embraces all accompanying ceremonies and supplementary rites, the ornaments of the Church and all its ministers, Church structures and fittings in their relation to worship, ecclesiastical persons and bodies, and the legislative judicial or administrative authorities in regard to the above. Over 100 scholars contributed to the dictionary.