Gifts and Graces: Prayer, Poetry, and Polemic from Lancelot Andrewes to John Bunyan

by David Gay

Prayer divided seventeenth-century England. Anglican Conformists such as Lancelot Andrewes and Jeremy Taylor upheld set forms of prayer in the Book of Common Prayer, a book designed to unite the nation in worship. Puritan Reformers and Dissenters such as John Milton and John Bunyan rejected the prayer book and advocated for extemporaneous or free prayer. In 1645, the mainly Puritan Long Parliament proscribed the Book of Common Prayer and dismantled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487505280
• ISBN13: 9781487505288
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"