Worship – Liturgy & The Book of Common Prayer
Saturday, August 7, 2010 at 2:22PM UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
Bailey, Henry Ives. The Liturgy Compared with the Bible V1: Or an Illustration and Confirmation, by Scripture Quotations and References (1835). (This is what its title suggests it is – extensive Scripture quotations are provided for each portion (indeed, each phrase) of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer).
Blunt, John Henry. The Annotated Book of Common Prayer: Being an Historical, Ritual and Theological Commentary on the Devotional System of the Church of England (1883).
Crouse, Robert D. The Form of Sound Words (2 Tim 1.13) – The Catholicity of the Prayer Book. (An excellent and thought provoking article by a defender of the Book of Common Prayer).
Daniel, Evan. The Prayer Book: It's history, language and contents (1901).
Haughton, James. The Holy Spirit and The Prayer Book: The Trinity Season Being Viewed as a Long Whitsuntide. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1913.
Holmes, Urban. “Education for Liturgy: An Unfinished Symphony in Four Movements.” Worship Points the Way: Celebration of the Life and Word of Massey H. Shepherd Jr. Ed. Malcolm C. Burson. Seabury Press: NY, 1981. (Holmes was one of the architects of the Episcopal Church’s 1979 book. In this article he discusses their desire to introduce new doctrine into the church and to do so by means of changing the liturgy. This is a revealing article, but a little “heavy.”)
Neil, Charles. The Tutorial Prayer Book.
Ousley, David. Pastoral Implications of Prayer Book Revision. 1985. (A little dated, but still very insightful. Highly recommended.)
Parsons & Jones, American Prayer Book. 1937.
Proctor & Frere, A New History of the Book of Common Prayer: with a rationale of its offices. MacMillian & Co, 1910.
Russian Observations upon the American Prayer Book. Trns Wilfrid J. Barnes, ed. Walter Howard Frere. 1904. (An Orthodox appraisal of the American BCP.)
Shepherd, Massey Hamilton, Jr. The Oxford American Prayer Book Commentary. NY: Oxford University Press, 1950.
_________. The Worship of the Church. Seabury Press: NY, 1952.
_________. The Living Liturgy. 1946.
Suter and Cleveland, The American Book of Common Prayer: Its Origin and Development. Oxford University Press, 1949.
Toon, Peter. The Anglican Formularies and Holy Scripture: Reformed Catholicism and Biblical Doctrine. Preservation Press of the Prayer Book Society, 2006.
_________. Worship Without Dumbing-down: Knowing God through Liturgy. Preservation Press of the Prayer Book Society, 2005.
_________. The Service of Holy Communion Annotated (1928 BCP).
Toon, Peter & Louis R. Tarsitano, Neither Archaic nor Obsolete: The Language of Common Prayer and Public Worship. Preservation Press of the Prayer Book Society, 2003.
________________. Neither Orthodoxy nor a Formulary: The Shape and Content of the 1979 Prayer Book of the Episcopal Church. Preservation Press of the Prayer Book Society, 2004.
Wheatly, Charles. A Rational Illustration Of The Book Of Common Prayer Of The Church Of England.
UNDERSTANDING LITURGY (LITURGICAL THEOLOGY)
Hart, D. G. Recovering Mother Kirk: The Case for Liturgy in the Reformed Tradition (2003).
Jones, Cheslyn, Geoffrey Wainwright, Edward Yarnold SJ and Paul Bradshaw, The Study of Liturgy (Rev. ed.), (1992).
Liturgies of the Western Church (selected and introduced by Bard Thompson).
Ratzinger, Joseph Cardinal, The Spirit of the Liturgy.
Reardon, Patrick Henry. Chronicles of History and Worship (2006).
Schmemann, Alexander. Introduction to Liturgical Theology (1966).
Toon, Peter, Worship without Dumbing-down: Knowing God Through Liturgy, 2005.
Wainwright, Geoffrey & Karen B. Westerfield Tucker (eds). The Oxford History of Christian Worship (2006).
