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PBS (VICTORIAN BRANCH) PUBLICATIONS

Reg. No. A0013178F    ABN 39692277220

December 2006

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                                                                             HEIDELBERG, VIC. 3084

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AN ANGLICAN TREASURE

The 1662 Book of Common Prayer
in the 21^st Century

The last forty years have witnessed a steady decline in church membership which has coincided with many other social trends. Following new versions of translations of Holy Scripture, it became apparent from the 1960s onwards that the push to ‘modernise’ liturgy was powerful enough to threaten the continued use of The Book of Common Prayer, one of the unifying factors which gave Anglicans, wherever they were, their common identity. However, the language and theology of modern liturgy have not appeared to ignite any notable enthusiasm, particularly among the young. Concerned groups of Anglicans in the western world came together to form Prayer Book Societies. The first of these was established in the United States of America in 1971, followed by the United Kingdom in 1975, New South Wales 1979, South Australia 1980, Victoria 1981, and later Western Australia and Tasmania. A national Prayer Book Society was formed in Canada in 1985. The common aim of these Prayer Book Societies is to defend the teaching and standing of The Book of Common Prayer and keep it in regular use in corporate worship and personal devotion. Today it has been virtually banished from daily and weekly worship: the young have not been taught it, the elderly are denied it.

The revisers’ apologia that the new liturgies still retain the structure of the old is wide of the mark; common structure can never replace common prayer. So great has been the decline in use of The Book of Common Prayer in the Anglican Church of Australia that a group of eight members of the Victorian Branch came together to write this booklet. With backgrounds in theology, law, history, science, publishing, graphic art and design and education – primary, secondary and tertiary – their common bond is the lifelong influence of The Book of Common Prayer on their spiritual formation. Its incomparable language has been instrumental in teaching them, as it has for countless thousands before them, to ‘worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness’. Their corporate is to share in a modest way their experience of worship using the classic editions of The Book of Common Prayer, the first of which appeared in 1549, and hopefully to encourage others to know and use this most wonderful Anglican treasure in the 21st century. Left; Crucifixion Window (detail). All Saints’ Church, East St Kilda Window installed late 19th century. Photograph by Alan Deppeler

Price: single copy $14.95, p&p $3.40. Special discount for multiple copies – contact the Literature Secretary (see above).

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THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER   1662 Pew Edition, either Cambridge University Press or Oxford University Press in bold type.                                                                       $25.00. BCP from CUP with new typesetting 9pt Lexicon                                                                        $29.95.   FIRST AND SECOND PRAYER BOOKS OF EDWARD VI Introduction by Professor the Revd Canon J R Porter. Original spelling. 463 pp. hbk. £9.50. Obtainable from the PBS TRADING LTD. The Studio, Copyhold Farm, Goring Heath, RG8 7RT. UK. Add £1.50 for post and packing Surface Mail. Airmail extra. Order BY POST only.   (NEW – May 2006) AN ANGLICAN TREASURE – The 1662 Book of Common Prayer in the 21st Century                                                     $14.95   THE ORDER FOR HOLY COMMUNION 1662 ANNOTATED The Revd Peter Toon. Designed for use by the ordinary churchgoer in the pew, clergy setting out on their vocation or unfamiliar with the BCP, and all interested in the evolution of the Prayer Book. It conveniently places the full service on one page with Dr Toon’s scholarly, helpful and readable notes of explanation opposite.                           $9.95   FOCUS ON c1549:   A MISCELLANY TO MARK THE 450TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. Addresses given by the Revd David Robarts at the sung Mattins, the Revd Dr Charles Sherlock on the Baptismal Rite, the Revd Dr Evan Burge on the Supper of the Lord and the Holy Communion commonly called the Masse, and by the Primate and Archbishop of Melbourne, the Most Revd Dr Keith Rayner, at the celebration of the Masse in St Paul’s Cathedral in June 1999.                            $9.95   Extracts from the BOOK OF HOMILIES.   Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture The Misery of Mankind The Salvation of Mankind A Short Declaration of the True, Lively and                    Christian Faith Against the Fear of Death Concerning Prayer Repentance                $1.00 each or 7 for $5.00.       Arthur Middleton THE SPIRIT OF ANGLICAN DEVOTION                                                   $4.40   Tom Morgan THE LANGUAGE OF THE COLLECTS                                               60 cents   Roger Nash THE POETRY OF PRAYER  $14.95   David Robarts THE DEVOTIONAL USE OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER                                                                               $2.50   Robin Sharwood THE PLACE OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER IN THE CONSTITUTION AND CANON LAW OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF AUSTRALIA: An Introduction and Overview                                                         $1.20   Also see Gribben & Sharwood                              SHARED TREASURES    $5.50                                                       Charles Sherlock THE FOOD FOR THE SOUL: Thomas Cranmer and Holy Scripture                                                           $2.80   David Silk PENANCE AND PENITENCE IN RELATION TO THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER                                                         $1.50   Henry Speagle A WINDOW ON ETERNITY                      $1.00                                                           THE CULTURE OF CHANGE                    $l.50   THE CONSCIENCE OF THE CHURCH: An Assay                                                               $4.95 THE ROAD TO GUNDAGAI: A Sequel to The Conscience of the Church                           $5.50 (NEW – November 2006) THOMAS CRANMER AND THE CONTEST FOR ANGLICAN IDENTITY                                                      $3.50   Barry Spurr THE SPIRITUALITY OF JOHN DONNE                                                           $2.00   Clive Tadgell THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND THE COMMON LAW   80 cents   THE POETRY OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER                                                         $2.75 Peter Toon & Louis R Tarsitano NEITHER ARCHAIC NOR OBSOLETE  - The Language of Common Prayer and Public Worship                                                                      $14.95

OTHER PUBLICATIONS   THE HOLY SPIRIT The nine addresses of our 20th Birthday Conference, August 2001.                $10.00   Anthony C Bailey GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633) Priest, Poet and Caroline Divine.                                               $2.50   Ian Breward HOOKER AND THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER                 $1.20   ARCHBISHOP THOMAS CRANMER, 1489-1556: an Ecumenical Symp. ed. Ian Breward.                                    $5.95   Ian Breward ARCHBISHOP LAUD –REFORMING LITURGY AND FOSTERING NATIONAL UNITY.                                                    $3.30   Evan Burge THE HOLY TRINI        $2.50   LITURGICAL AND DOCTRINAL ASPECTS OF THE HOLY COMMUNION or LORD’S SUPPER in the BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER 1552 – What did Cranmer Believe?                            $4.95   Rowan Callick THE COST OF CONSCIENCE                                        $2.20   Tom Frame  THE NAVY & THE  BCP         $2.20 (NEW – November 2006)   Robert Gribben & Robin Sharwood SHARED TREASURES, Cranmer’s Ecumenical Legacy and The Wesley Hymn Book of 1780                                                     $7.00   Arthur Jones THE SCOPE AND INTENTION OF THE EXHORTATIONS IN THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER 1662 COMMUNION SERVICE       $1.50   Andrew McGowan THE PLACE OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION, 12 pp.                                                           $2.50   John Stanley Martin LITURGY, LANGUAGE AND RENEWAL                                        90 cents   ARCHBISHOP CRANMER, GOOD FRIDAY AND THE JEWS: a potentially radical new direction                                               $2.50              OF HISTORICAL INTEREST         A WAY OF LIFE Bicentennial Conference Papers                                                               $2.50   John McKie THE RED BOOK AND ALL THAT                                                 $1.00   Bernice Martin, YOUNG PEOPLE’S BELIEFS                                                            (Britain, 1992)                               60 cents   David Martin, CURRENT ISSUES IN THE CHURCH  OF ENGLAND (1992)                                                $1.00