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The Book of Common Prayer: Cranmer’s Vision of Scripture and Mission

The Book of Common Prayer: Cranmer’s Vision of Scripture and Mission. Anglican principles of church culture. a. The proper Gospel culture are the words of the Scriptures themselves b. Such a proper Gospel culture is communicated or enacted in corporate prayer.

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The Book of Common Prayer: Cranmer’s Vision of Scripture and Mission

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  1. The Book of Common Prayer: Cranmer’s Vision of Scripture and Mission

  2. Anglican principles of church culture • a. The proper Gospel culture are the words of the Scriptures themselves • b. Such a proper Gospel culture is communicated or enacted in corporate prayer

  3. Other principles of church culture • Lutheran: doctrinal  confession [justification by faith] • Presbyterian: creation, fall, grace • Evangelical/Pentecostal: character of conversion, visible experience • Catholic: institutional connection • Orthodox: historical connection

  4. Anglican (again)… or… • to encounter/struggle/live with Scripture, and do so in the midst of praying.

  5. What is the Church? • A single national church • From Augustine • The Church is a “mixed body” of sinners and righteous (a corpus permixtum) • Puritans will oppose this idea

  6. How shape a people? Common School!

  7. How shape this one church? Common Scriptural Prayer • Exposing all the people • All the time • To the Whole Scripture

  8. What is the church’s duty with respect to Scripture? • Scripture for all the people (vernacular) • For their common “edification • To order all their life • Under the King’s supervision • In ordered unity • By reading, not reasoning

  9. Cranmer’s instructions On the use of the new BCP

  10. Cranmer’s explanation of the BCP’s purpose • The Whole Scripture heard over time via the Lectionary, in order to edify • The Liturgy as a support to this, according to ancient custom • This custom represents the catholic Church of the “olde fathers”

  11. Presuppositions about the Gospel • Christians are mature as they assume the form of Jesus (the shape of the Lecitonary and service) • We grow as Christians, and are therefore shaped into being Christians fully • Time is a divine gift when shaped by the worship of God through the Scriptures

  12. Good News: we have a destiny (the form of Christ); we have a guide a means (Christ Jesus himself); we have time; we are not alone in our journey (we are taken up by God in common worship)

  13. Does our culture support the culture of the Book of Common Prayer? • No destiny • No authoritative guides • No enabling power • No regular time • We are on our own and should be • “Conformity” is bad

  14. Mission and the BCP • Common Prayer • Common citizenship for the service of God • Common humanity with the same vocation

  15. Thomas Bray

  16. Cree, 1860

  17. BCP in Hebrew

  18. “preaching, catechizing, and instructing”

  19. Anglican church, Ethiopia: Bible and BCP

  20. Melanesia, Christianagaram, 1851

  21. The American Samuel Johnson, founder of King’s College

  22. we offer up our address to God unanimously, with the unity of the Spirit, in the bond of peace, • [lifting] up holy hands without wrath or doubting’. • psalmic elements • comprehensive gestural framework—kneeling, and the like— • Symbol of the whole gathered people’s lives in unied self-offering.

  23. Ghana, 1960, after Independence

  24. Kiswahili 1876; 1943

  25. Solomon Islands (Kwara’ae) 2001

  26. Arabic, 1837

  27. Egypt, 1920

  28. Chinese Anglican Mission, Wellington, New Zealand, 1932

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