Turning Points in Prayer Book History Including chapters on preaching about

Including chapters on preaching about baptism across the church year

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Ample notes throughout explain the history of vigils and offer advice for planning small private and large public vigils

This easy-to-understand perspective on relationships can be implemented in any setting with any group

Turning Points in Prayer Book History Including chapters on preaching aboutTwo leading scholars explore the story of the American Prayer Book's development through nine critical turning points. The Book of Common Prayer has a central place in the faith and practice of Anglicans around the world and, within the United States, in The Episcopal Church. In their exciting and comprehensive new work, Nathan Jennings and Matthew S. C. Olver offer a fresh and original argument: the American prayer book tradition is not merely a