Church of England Publications - Alternative Service Book, Faith in the City, Church Times, Faithful Cities, Church of England Newspaper (Paperback)

Chapters: Alternative Service Book, Faith in the City, Church Times, Faithful Cities, Church of England Newspaper, 1928 Prayer Book. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Alternative Service Book 1980 (ASB) was the first complete prayer book produced by the Church of England since 1662. Its name derives from the fact that it was proposed not as a replacement for the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) but merely as an alternative to it. In practice, it was so popular that the various printers had to produce several editions very quickly and churches which retained the BCP drew attention to this fact as something to be noted. The Prayer Book Society was soon complaining that it was becoming hard to find a church which used the old prayer book and that theological colleges were not introducing students to it. Usage of the ASB is now technically illegal as it has now been replaced by Common Worship. Following the failure of the attempts to introduce a new Prayer book through Parliament in the 1920s, liturgical reform had idled. Some Anglo-Catholic parishes used the English Missal, a version of the BCP, which included the Prayers of the Latin Mass both in translation and in the original interspersed with prayers from the Prayer book; most used either the BCP or the 1928 Prayer Book, which though it was never approved, has continued in print until the present day with the warning "The publication of this book does not directly or indirectly imply that it can be regarded as authorized for use in churches." As time passed and liturgical scholarship proceeded, it became clear that a new attempt should be made to provide orders of service for the church. In an attempt to break the deadlock, Dom Gregory Dix, in his book The Shape of the Liturgy published in 1945, ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=41734