Ruth A. Meyers

Paul F. Bradshaw

Hodges-Haynes Professor Emerita of Liturgics Ruth A Meyers

Professor School of Engineering and the Program of Liturgy and Art Luiz Carlos Teixeira Coelho

"This volume considers the Book of Common Prayer in its widest sense, including the various historic and more recent editions bearing that title in churches throughout the Anglican Communion and also modern books in various parts of the Anglican Communion that fulfill the same function. Introductory essays consider the Prayer Book and Anglican identity, the impact of colonialism, approaches to Prayer Book revision in different Anglican Provinces, the influence of the BCP on other liturgical traditions and their influences on the BCP, and supplemental books. Significant attention is given to inculturation of worship, in an introductory essay and in several essays throughout the volume. Several essays consider the language of the BCP, including questions of translation and inclusive and expansive language. Because the Prayer Book is not just a text but also a script for worship, the handbook includes essays on worship space, rubrics, and music. The remaining sections consider theologies and practices of the liturgical year, Christian initiation (baptism, confirmation, admission to communion), services of the word (daily offices and eucharist), eucharist, ordination and ministry, and pastoral offices. While many of the essays introduce historical background, the focus is the interpretation and use of contemporary Prayer Books, with attention to the impact of the twentieth-century Liturgical Movement. Since the 1980s, Anglicans have met through the International Anglican Liturgical Consultation to consider principles for liturgical revision and to share news of developments in their home Provinces, and several essays take note of the findings of these consultations"-- Provided by publisher.

The Oxford Handbook of the Book of Common Prayer

Missiology "A robust and practical theology that integrates worship and mission into a seamless whole." Anglican & Episcopal History "A very useful and insightful text. . . . A remarkable synthesis of most of the best insights liturgical scholars and missiologists have gained regarding the relationship between mission and liturgy over the last decades." George R. Hunsberger — Western Theological Seminary "Ruth Meyers brings a deep grasp of what's at stake in the rediscovery of mission as the essence of the church, together with a generous mastery of liturgical traditions, to provide vision for seeing these two dimensions of the church's life as one. . . . This is the handbook that should accompany every Christian community on its worshiping, witnessing journey." Stephen B. Bevans, SVD — Catholic Theological Union "A wonderful, faith-filled meditation on the missional heart of worship. . . . A new classic in liturgical studies and in missiology as well." Todd E. Johnson — Brehm Center, Fuller Theological Seminary "Ruth Meyers's approach to the issues surrounding worship and mission is spot-on. Instead of approaching worship from a missional slant, or mission from a liturgical perspective, she takes both topics back to their biblical and historical roots — the nature of the church. . . . In practical and insightful ways Meyers demonstrates how a church's ministry in the world and its regular offering of worship reinforce one another. Her careful, direct, evenhanded approach is a breath of fresh air to much of the current theological discourse." Taylor W. Burton-Edwards — Worship Resources, Discipleship Ministries of The United Methodist Church "Seminarians, pastors, deacons, and worship leaders seeking to understand, articulate, or imagine how the basic and most enduring structures of Christian worship `engage worshipers in the mission of God' will discover in these pages both Meyers's wise and challenging counsel and many wonderful companions for the journey." International Bulletin of Missionary Research "A helpful and timely new resource. . . . In Missional Worship Meyers does excellent work developing the notion that mission and worship are inseparably and integrally related." Anglican and Episcopal History "A very useful and insightful text, particularly for those just beginning to explore the field of liturgical studies. The book is a remarkable synthesis of most of the best insights liturgical scholars and missiologists have gained regarding the relationship between mission and liturgy over the last decades." Church Times "[Myers] deserves to be read, because we need to hear this message in all parts of the Church of England today."

Gathering as God's People, Going Out in God's Name

Missional Worship, Worshipful Mission

Leonel L. Mitchell

• Revised anniversary edition and next entry in the Weil Series in Liturgics • Well-known book; well-respected authors • Timely, as The Episcopal Church considers the shape that prayer book revision may take 2015 marks the thirtieth anniversary of Lee Mitchell’s great standard work on the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. As his student, protégée, and colleague, Ruth Meyers takes this classic work and updates it for the Church in its current era and for the future. For clergy, seminarians, liturgists, historians

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