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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Anglican & Episcopalian Churches
There has never been a display like it. This is the catalogue to an
ambitious exhibition at the Goldsmiths' Hall, London, which will
comprise 250 gold and silver objects and sets of objects spanning
the history of the Church from the earliest possible times to the
present day. A foreword by the Rt Revd Rowan Williams, Archbishop
of Canterbury, and twelve essays by distinguished authorities will
illustrate aspects of evolving liturgy and Church history such as
the medieval Mass, Church patronage in the Middle Ages, and the
English Reformation. Historical themes from post-Reformation
centuries will include Catholic recusancy, the 17th- and
18th-century altar service and the medieval revivals that mirrored
the Victorian Tractarian movement. Important commissions from the
1980s and 1990s for Lichfield Cathedral and York Minster will also
be discussed. Essays will be accompanied by new photography of key
objects, many of them the'secret' treasure of individual parish
churches. The guiding principle of the exhibition is that all loans
be in the possession of the Church or other religious foundations.
Objects have been selected from cathedrals, Oxford colleges
and'royal peculiars' such as St George's Chapel at Windsor. The
majority are from parish churches great and small up and down the
country.
A year of sermons preached by Anglican Reader Pauline Lowe. Most
were preached tiny congregations in remote churches in Mid Wales.
The two Books of Homilies, along with the Book of Common Prayer and
the Ordinal, have been basic documents of the Church of England,
and are valuable in showing Anglican doctrine during the
Reformation, as well as being of considerable historical
importance. The first book, published in 1547, early in the reign
of Edward VI, was partly though not entirely the work of Archbishop
Thomas Cranmer, and the inspiration appears to have been his. This
was intended to raise the standards of preaching by offering model
sermons covering particular doctrinal and pastoral themes, either
to be read (particularly by unlicensed clergy) or to provide
preachers with additional material for their own sermons. The
success of the venture led Bishop Edmund Bonner, who had
contributed to Cranmer's book, to produce his own Book of Homilies
in 1555, during the reign of Queen Mary. The Second Book of
Homilies, published in 1563 (and in a revised form in 1571) appears
in turn to have been influenced both by Cranmer's and by Bonner's
books. The present edition brings together the all three books,
edited and introduced by Revd Dr Gerald Bray.
Since it was first introduced in the Summer of 2000, Common Praise
the new Hymns Ancient & Modern has sold over one hundred
thousand copies, and been adopted by parishes in every diocese in
England and Wales including eight English cathedrals and in five of
the seven dioceses in Scotland. It is also used in numerous
schools, colleges, hospitals, residential homes, retreat houses,
religious communities, crematoria, missions and military garrison
chapels.
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