Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556)
Autor/a de The Book of Common Prayer: 1662 Version
Sobre l'autor
Thomas Cranmer, the English prelate and archbishop of Canterbury, was born in Aslacton in Nottinghamshire. In 1503 he was sent to study at Jesus College, Cambridge University, where he obtained a fellowship. Cranmer took holy orders in 1523. Six years later, he left Cambridge because of the plague mostra'n més and went to Waltham, where he came to the attention of King Henry VIII because of his suggestion that Henry submit the question of his divorce from Catherine of Aragon to a debate by universities throughout Christian Europe. Cranmer subsequently became a counsel in this suit and was then appointed royal chaplain and archdeacon of Taunton. In 1533, he was made archbishop of Canterbury and soon after declared Catherine's marriage to Henry null and void. Throughout the remainder of Henry's reign, he was subservient to the will of the king, annulling Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn, divorcing him from Anne of Cleves, and informing the king of Catherine Howard's premarital affairs. Under Henry VIII, Cranmer had been slowly drifting into Protestantism. While serving as archbishop under Edward VI, Cranmer shaped the doctrinal and liturgical transformation of the Church of England, placing the English Bible in churches and, in 1552, revising the Book of Common Prayer. Shortly after the Roman Catholic queen Mary I assumed the throne, however, Cranmer was tried and convicted of treason and heresy and condemned to be burned at the stake. Before being put to death, he recanted his errors and retracted all he had written. In addition to The Book of Common Prayer, Cranmer wrote a number of other works, including the Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum (1571) and A Defence of the Doctrine of the Sacrament (1550). (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Thomas Cranmer
A Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Our Savior Christ: With a… (1928) 37 exemplars
Writings and Disputations of Thomas Cranmer relative to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper (Works of Thomas… (1844) 21 exemplars
Writings of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Cranmer: Archbishop of Canterbury and martyr, 1556 (British reformers) (1842) 4 exemplars
The works of Thomas Cranmer 4 exemplars
First Prayer Book of 1549: The Order of the Holy Communion - in Modern Spelling, Complete and Unabridged (1998) 3 exemplars
1549 BCP 3 exemplars
Anglican Tradition: Holy Communion (1662)/Rev. Peter Laister, Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer 1 exemplars
Writings and Disputations of Thomas Cranmer Relative to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Ed. for the Parker Society… (2022) 1 exemplars
Miscellaneous Writings & Letters Of Thomas Cranmer Archbishop Of Canterbury - Primary Source Edition (2013) 1 exemplars
Defence of the true and catholike doctrine of the sacrament of the body and bloud of our sauior Christ 1 exemplars
The Book of Common Prayer (Prayer Book) 1 exemplars
The prayer-book of Queen Elizabeth 1559, to which are appended some occasional forms of prayer issued in her reign:… (1890) 1 exemplars
Litany 1 exemplars
Selected writings 1 exemplars
Thomas Cranmer Collection (10 vols.) 1 exemplars
The Remains of Thomas Cranmer, Vol. 4 1 exemplars
The Remains of Thomas Cranmer, Vol. 3 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- Archbishop Cranmer
- Data de naixement
- 1489-07-02
- Data de defunció
- 1556-03-21
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- England
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Aslacton, Nottinghamshire, England
- Lloc de defunció
- Oxford, England
- Llocs de residència
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Canterbury, England, UK - Educació
- University of Cambridge (1515, 1526)
- Professions
- Archbishop of Canterbury
Royal Chaplain - Organitzacions
- Church of England
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Book of Common Prayer de Thomas Cranmer
1662. What else need be said? Although published a century on, this is basically the work of Thomas Cranmer. A triumph of the English language, and deserves to be read even by those who don't believe, purely as a work of literature.
this is a great book on the topic, showing that Cranmer was a true Protestant, and a lover of the gospel. Deals quite comprehensively with the subject. worth reading
When I was a child I wasn't allowed to read anything frivolous on Sundays, so I used to read my illustrated Bible and the prayer book - I particularly liked the tables for working out the date for Easter, and the bits about who you couldn't marry. Also the language is beautiful, shame they've replaced it with banal everyday version.
The language of Cranmer's magnificent four hundred year old liturgy is being butchered and replaced with pale and platitudinous up-dated versions. This is being done, the Church leaders tell us, to aid the understanding of the Common Man!
In 1980 a Gallop Poll survey showed that 52% of churchgoers were unhappy with the new services and of these, 93% said they preferred the old ones in Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer. 77% said they preferred the traditional Lord's Prayer to the new one with its "Lord do not bring us to the test"! The Common Man had spoken; but he had spoken too late. Already the "Alternative Service Book" had been approved by General Synod (its members elected by only 3% of church members) and was at the printers.
The traditional form of the Lord's Prayer has been deliberately left out of this new book of services and as our great tradition is being done to death, the old Cranmer is put to gather dust on vestrey shelves. Already it is hard to find a parish church that uses the Prayer Book. This is a major calamity. Collects, canticles, prayers and petitions, rounded and smoothed by centuries of use are hacked about by those who seemingly have never understood what Owen Chadwick put so well: "Liturgies are not made - they grow in the devotion of centuries.
Listen to the Collect for Purity at the beginning of the service of Holy Communion - read it aloud to yourself. It is a very ancient one. It appears in one of the service books of Alquin of York who for some time attended the court of Charlemagne. It is just one of the many unflawed gems of English in Cranmer's now doomed prayer book.
Collect for Purity:
Almighty God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid. Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee and worthily magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Sadly, nothing in the modern prayer book reaches the heights and beauty of this.… (més)
In 1980 a Gallop Poll survey showed that 52% of churchgoers were unhappy with the new services and of these, 93% said they preferred the old ones in Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer. 77% said they preferred the traditional Lord's Prayer to the new one with its "Lord do not bring us to the test"! The Common Man had spoken; but he had spoken too late. Already the "Alternative Service Book" had been approved by General Synod (its members elected by only 3% of church members) and was at the printers.
The traditional form of the Lord's Prayer has been deliberately left out of this new book of services and as our great tradition is being done to death, the old Cranmer is put to gather dust on vestrey shelves. Already it is hard to find a parish church that uses the Prayer Book. This is a major calamity. Collects, canticles, prayers and petitions, rounded and smoothed by centuries of use are hacked about by those who seemingly have never understood what Owen Chadwick put so well: "Liturgies are not made - they grow in the devotion of centuries.
Listen to the Collect for Purity at the beginning of the service of Holy Communion - read it aloud to yourself. It is a very ancient one. It appears in one of the service books of Alquin of York who for some time attended the court of Charlemagne. It is just one of the many unflawed gems of English in Cranmer's now doomed prayer book.
Collect for Purity:
Almighty God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid. Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee and worthily magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Sadly, nothing in the modern prayer book reaches the heights and beauty of this.… (més)
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