BCP, Parts 2 & 3

THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

One Book For All --- One Church For All

Session 2:  (click here for audio)

A.    Reflections on the BCP

1.     The Primacy of Scripture

2.     Time Passages: Lives Saturated in Prayer

3.     Acting Out Our Faith

4.     Establishment of the Via Media --- the Middle Way.

  

                  Session 3:  (audio available)

B.    The Politics of the Matter

1.      The Great Matter

2.     The Great Bible

C.     Cranmer vs the Catholics

1.      Hocus Pocus

2.     The Language of Prayer

3.     The Hours of Prayer

D.    Cranmer vs the Evangelicals

1.     Priests in Robes/Ministers in Suits

2.     Matins /Morning Prayer

3.     Altars/Tables; Space and Architecture

4.     The Black Rubric

E.      One book for all = one church for all

HISTORICAL TIMELINE

THE BCP AND THE BIRTH OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

 (Click underlined links to Wikipedia for more info)

1509 – King Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon

1527 – Anne Boleyn; Henry protests to the Pope

1533 – (Mar. 30)  Thomas Cranmer is installed as Archbishop of Canterbury

1534 – Act of Supremacy

1538 – The Great Bible is published

1538 – Cranmer completes his first draft of an English Liturgy

1544 – Cranmer completes the Litany

1547 – King Henry VIII dies; Edward takes the throne

1548 – (Easter Sunday) Cranmer promotes an English Eucharist for mandatory use

1549 – The First Book of Common Prayer is published

1549 – The Act of Uniformity

1553 -- Assession of Mary I to the throne (through 1558)

1558 -- Assession of Elizabeth I

1559 -- The Elizabethan (Religious) Settlement

      Part 1 -  The Act of Supremacy of 1558

      Part 2 -  The Act of Uniformity 1558/59

1563 -- The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion

1547-1571 - Development of The [Elizabethan] Homilies

LINKS

To Heroes of the Anglican Faith, Writers, Biographical info

for Anglican History

An Anglican Glossary