Comfortable Words: Polity, Piety and the Book of Common Prayer

by Stephen Platten

Book Overview

2012 is the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, now widely used in the Church of England and throughout the Anglican Communion. Comfortable Words draws together some of the world's leading liturgical scholars and historians who offer a comprehensive and accessible study of the Prayer Book and its impact on both Church and society over the last three and a half centuries. Comfortable Words includes new and original scholarship here...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033404670X
• ISBN13: 9780334046707
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: SCM Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"