Jacobs The Book of Common Prayer

A Biography
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4802-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Lives of Great Religious Books

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Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University. He is the author of several books, including The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Oxford) and Original Sin: A Cultural History (HarperOne), and he has edited W. H. Auden's long poems For the Time Being and The Age of Anxiety (both Princeton).Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University. He is the author of several books, including The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Oxford) and Original Sin: A Cultural History (HarperOne), and he has edited W. H. Auden's long poems For the Time Being and The Age of Anxiety (both Princeton).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacobs, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Anglikanische und episkopale Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Gebet & liturgisches Material

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chronology ix

List of Figures xi

A Note on Texts xiii

Introduction The Archbishop in His Library 1

Chapter 1 One Book for One Country 7

Chapter 2 Revision, Banishment, Restoration 45

Chapter 3 Becoming Venerable 61

Chapter 4 The Book in the Social World 91

Chapter 5 Objects, Bodies, and Controversies 113

Chapter 6 The Pressures of the Modern 149

Chapter 7 Many Books for Many Countries 181

Appendix The Prayer Book and Its Printers 195

Acknowledgments 201

Notes 203

Index 231

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University. He is the author of several books, including The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Oxford) and Original Sin: A Cultural History (HarperOne), and he has edited W. H. Auden's long poems For the Time Being and The Age of Anxiety (both Princeton).