The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books)

Acknowledged authors Jacobs, Alan wrote The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books) comprising 256 pages back in 2019. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 0691191786 and 9780691191782. Since then The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books) textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price of $ 4.32 or rent at the marketplace.

While many of us are familiar with such famous words as “Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here. . .” or “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,” we may not know that they originated in The Book of Common Prayer, which first appeared in 1549. Like the words of the King James Bible and Shakespeare, the language of this prayer book has saturated English culture and letters. Here Alan Jacobs tells its story. He shows how The Book of Common Prayer―from its beginnings as a means of social and political control in the England of Henry VIII to its worldwide presence today―became a venerable work whose cadences express the heart of religious life for millions.