In Just Three Years: Pentecost 1549 to All Saints' 1552 - A Tale of Two Prayer Books

In Just Three Years: Pentecost 1549 to All Saints' 1552 - A Tale of Two Prayer Books

by Canon Jennings
In Just Three Years: Pentecost 1549 to All Saints' 1552 - A Tale of Two Prayer Books

In Just Three Years: Pentecost 1549 to All Saints' 1552 - A Tale of Two Prayer Books

by Canon Jennings

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Overview

Henry VIII's Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, is credited with a pivotal role in the English Reformation. As well as playing a leading part, together with Henry's Chancellor, Thomas Cromwell, in securing the separation of the Church in England from the authority of the Roman Church and the Pope enabling Henry both to marry his mistress, Anne Boleyn, and to become Supreme Head of the Church of England, he also began, prior to Henry's death in 1547, to introduce liturgical reforms into the Church. In the reign of Henry's son, Edward VI, Cranmer was considered the prime creator of the 1549 Prayer Book, the first all-English service book with reformed tendencies. Within three years, a more radical and reformed book was produced and authorised at the end of 1552. the question and issue is whether Cranmer was directly responsible for this second book which took the Church of England in a more overtly protestant direction. Many argue that he was. This book suggests that he was not.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785354304
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 07/29/2016
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Canon David Jennings is a parish priest and also Canon Theolgian at Leicester Cathedral. He lives in Market Bosworth, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments x

Foreword xi

Preface xii

Introduction l

Chapter 1 Before 1549 5

Chapter 2 1549 and all that 13

Chapter 3 1552 revolution 21

Chapter 4 Was it Cranmer? 27

Chapter 5 Who dunnit? 31

Chapter 6 Mary, Mary quite contrary 41

Chapter 7 Off to 1559, 1604 and 1662 51

Chapter 8 20th and 21st century legacies of just 3 years 63

Conclusion 71

About the Author 74

Bibliography 76

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