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|A beautifully lucid introduction to the origins and use of one of the most significant religious texts in the English-speaking world. Alan Jacobs helps us to understand not only the book but also the Christian sensibility of the whole Anglican tradition and the culture it nourished.|--Dr. Rowan Williams, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge |The |Book of Common Prayer,| often thought of as a source of Anglican stability, has led an interesting life of many changes. Jacobs tracks them all like a shrewd detective.|--Garry Wills, author of |What the Gospels Meant| |From pious aspiration to ruthless politics, and from bonfires of hated communion rails to the Star Wars prayer, the history of the |Book of Common Prayer,| in Alan Jacobs' hands, is both an education and a bright panorama. I can hardly remember another read so swift yet at the same time so helpful.|--Sarah Ruden, author of |Paul Among the People: The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time| |Few texts have had as much influence on the language, culture, and religious life of English-speaking nations as the |Book of Common Prayer.| Alan Jacobs masterfully distills its history with a poetic touch that is at once scholarly, reverential, and highly engaging. There is no better introduction or guide to the |Book of Common Prayer| than this one.|--Carlos Eire, author of |A Very Brief History of Eternity| |Alan Jacobs traces the life of the |Book of Common Prayer| as it has grown and changed over its four-hundred-year history, responding to social and historical conditions and to its own inner convictions and complexities. Many books have been written about the |Book of Common Prayer,| but this one is uniquely compact, illuminating, and moving.|--Edward Mendelson, Columbia University |This book is a pleasure to read. Alan Jacobs's writing is informed, lucid, accessible, and witty. I know of no other work that is comparable.|--R.W.L. Moberly, Durham University

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