Worship: The Book of Common Prayer: Shaping the Heart Through Liturgy
Teaching on Worship from Thomas Cranmer: The Book of Common Prayer: Shaping the Heart Through Liturgy
This is a spiritual discipline on liturgy and prayer book, drawing on Psalm 19:14, Matthew 6:9-13 and Ephesians 3:14-21.
Thomas Cranmer (d. 1556) compiled the first Book of Common Prayer in 1549, creating a pattern of worship that would shape English-speaking Christianity for centuries. Cranmer believed that repeated exposure to beautiful, scriptural language would gradually transform the hearts of ordinary people. The Collects -- short, focused prayers for each week of the year -- are masterpieces of compressed theology and devotion.…
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