Responses to the threatened depredations, respectively, of Anabaptist preachersĮnacted were more modest still. Services were not creative exercises by liturgical commissions but were instead Only two services were added to the BCP in those 110 years: a form of baptismįor adults and forms of prayer to be used by the royal navy. Īpart from state occasions, such as the commemoration of the Gunpowder Plot, Little taking in here and a little letting out there. No structural changes, subtle but not radical shifts in theology, generally a But from the final edition of Archbishop ThomasĬranmer in 1552 to the culminating edition in 1662, the revisions were modest. In the English-speaking world, the most widely used of these Reformation liturgies is the Book of Common Prayer (BCP).Īnd variations in the BCP. As the Reformers revised the mass and daily offices, they invariably pulled away from notions of eucharistic sacrifice and purgatorial respite, pruned luxuriant ceremonies, and placed new emphasis on the reading and preaching of the Scriptures. Many liturgies were produced in the churches of the magisterial Reformation in Germany, England, Switzerland, and elsewhere. The Reformers were concerned not only with theology but also with its expression in worship. Printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, 1638 Front cover and spine of The Book of Common Prayer (bound with goatskin)
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