Lee Gatiss
“Missionary” is not the first word that comes to mind when one thinks of the Puritans. Keen disciples, passionate pastors, devotional writers, powerful preachers, precise theologians-yes. Radical revolutionaries and reformers, even. But not missionaries. The recent Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (Cambridge University Press, 2008), which features twenty in-depth studies by a stellar cast of the […]
The Anglican Book of Common Prayer is a key text for understanding the Reformation in England. For centuries it formed the backbone of the spiritual diet of English-speaking peoples all over the world, alongside the King James Bible. With John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and Matthew Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, Thomas Cranmer’s Book of Common Prayer […]
There were several editions of the Book of Common Prayer during the Reformation. The first English language prayer book, replacing the ubiquitous Latin, was in 1549. This was further strengthened in a more Reformed theological direction by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in 1552, after advice from the continental reformers Martin Bucer and Peter Martyr Vermigli. The […]
