Turning Points in Prayer Book History: From England through Scotland, to the United States

Two 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 historical artifact but a living body of bind...