The 1928 Prayer Book
http://www.churchsociety.org/issues_new/liturgy/documents/Cway_111_1928PrayerBook.pdf
Why are we running an article on the 1928 Prayer Book now? A new ‘orthodox’ province has been established in North America (only a day ago as I write). It has set out in a provisional constitution its doctrinal position but has not adopted any formal liturgies. The Jerusalem Declaration from GAFCON affirms the 1662 Book of Common Prayer but in the United States in particular thetraditional prayer book before the 1970s was their 1928 book. That book is not the same as the English 1928 book, a matter that has caused considerable confusion in some discussions, but nevertheless it is also not the 1662 book....Some groups within the US have already produced a new prayer book built on the US 1928 tradition and we are grateful to Robin Jordan for an article in this issue explaining the nature of that book and the issues it raises. The underlying issue, as Robin explains, is that there are relatively few reformed, protestant, evangelical Anglicans in the US and Canadian episcopal churches. The churches labelled as ‘orthodox’ are likely to be Anglo-Catholic, charismatic, plain traditionalist or a mix of all three. Thus the pressure is for the new province to adopt as their official liturgy practices which are utterly alien to evangelical Anglicans, indeed, which are the very things the forebears of Church Society fought against in England.Related article:http://www.churchsociety.org/crossway/documents/Cway_111_JordanPrayerBook.pdf
An Anglican Prayer Book (2008) - Church Society
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