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prayer book 1. Ecclesiast a book containing the prayers used at church services or recommended for private devotions 2. Church of England another name for Book of Common Prayer How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Perhaps it's because Adams has written her book for a lay or non-Anglican audience, but she does not really attempt to connect the current crisis with much of anything in the church's past, other than (misleadingly) the 1970s fight over ordination of women and prayerbook revision, which split Anglo-Catholics and Anglo-evangelicals into "conservative" and "liberal" camps. Defenders of the liturgical antiquities of the Church of England would do well to read the essay in Oxford Preserving the Classical Prayerbooks. Although a common conception of the Psalter views this collection as "the prayerbook of Israel/the church," many psalms do not function as prayers--that is, as direct addresses to God. |
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