Day By Day:The Rhythm of the Bible in the Book of Common Prayer
Overview
This insightful text by lectionary and psalter of the Book of Common Prayer, Benjamin Sargent, examines the beauty and benefit of the church calendar as expressed in the collects. Throughout this volume Sargent’s explorations open up the richness biblical heritage offered by the calendar structure.
Top Highlights
“the principle lex orandi, lex credendi (the word of prayer is the word of belief).” (Page 7)
“Prayer Book Calendar, Collects, Lectionary and Psalter” (Page 8)
“the exclusive use of biblical and apocryphal texts and the aim to read the whole of the Canon each year” (Page 35)
“But Scripture speaks most powerfully when it is allowed to set the agenda, when reading attempts not to discover something easily and personally applicable, but when it attempts to hear the historically different, and perhaps strange, voice of the text.” (Page 30)
“Good Friday and Easter are celebrated within the same Calendar as lives of Christians from much later, such Christians of the past have their status elevated at the expense of the saving events of the Gospel.” (Page 15)
- Title: Day by Day: The Rhythm of the Bible in the Book of Common Prayer
- Author: Benjamin Sargent
- Series: Anglican Foundations Series
- Publisher: Latimer Trust
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Church of England › Book of common prayer; Church of England › Liturgy--Calendar; Church of England › Book of common prayer--Collects
- ISBNs: 9781906327118, 1906327114
- Resource ID: LLS:DYDYRHYCMMNPRYR
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:38:03Z