Turning Points in Prayer Book History Mary of Nazareth situates biblical

Mary of Nazareth situates biblical texts’ treatment of Mary within first-century culture and examines changing theologies of Mary and the incarnation among the earliest generations of Christians

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Ample notes throughout explain the history of vigils and offer advice for planning small private and large public vigils

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Turning Points in Prayer Book History Mary of Nazareth situates biblicalTwo leading scholars explore the story of the American Prayer Book's development through nine critical turning points. The Book of Common Prayer has a central place in the faith and practice of Anglicans around the world and, within the United States, in The Episcopal Church. In their exciting and comprehensive new work, Nathan Jennings and Matthew S. C. Olver offer a fresh and original argument: the American prayer book tradition is not merely a