Prayer Book Studies Volume Five: Trial-use Baptism, Calendar and Ordination, Issues 18-20

A landmark series of studies devoted to the revision of the Book of Common Prayer returns to print — Volume Five concerns new draft liturgies presented to the Church’s general convention.

The creation of the landmark 1979 Book of Common Prayer was the fruit of nearly four decades of discussion within the Episcopal Church. Prayer Book Studies is a series of official reports by the Church’s Standing Liturgical Commission that were published irregularly over the course of that period, represent...