Lee Gatiss: The 350th Anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer

http://leegatiss.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/the-book-of-common-prayer/

The Book of Common Prayer

This month sees the 350th anniversary of the official adoption of the Book of Common Prayer in 1662.

 

 



 

Last year we celebrated the 400th anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible. This year the history buffs and antiquarians are in joyful mood because it is the 350th anniversary

Peter Vermigli: Providence and Predestination

Peter Martyr Vermigli
(Italian Pietro Martire Vermigli)
 (8 September 1499 – 12 November 1562),
sometimes simply Peter Martyr,
was an Italian theologian
of the Reformation period.

An accurate and brief comment is registered at www.wikipedia.org, a dangerous source and, generally, unacceptable source for scholars.  However, this is accurate about Peter Vermigli.
"Vermigli and Ochino were

1552 BCP: The Reign of Edward VI

W. K. Lowther Clarke & C. Harris, editors.  Liturgy
and Worship: A Companion to the Prayer Books of the Anglican Communion.  SPCK, 1954.  Print.




We will highlight certain sections.





Electronically, at: 
http://www.anglicanbooksrevitalized.us/Oldies/BCP/clarke1b.htm



IV – The Reign
of Edward VI



Henry VIII
died and Edward VI succeeded on Jan. 28, 1546–7. With a king a