Word: cranmer
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...scholars with "drab, bureaucratic writing" that renders the 23rd Psalm: "The Lord is my shepherd: therefore can I lack nothing." The "blame" lies not with T. S. Eliot et al. but with Bishop Miles Coverdale, who wrote the psalm that way in his "Great Bible" of 1539. When Archbishop Cranmer drafted the first Prayer Book in 1549, he used Coverdale's version of the Psalter; that version is still used in British and American Prayer Books. The King James Bible, of course, was not issued until after the Prayer Book...
Revision has been long overdue. First compiled in 1549 by Thomas Cranmer, Edward VI's Archbishop of Canterbury, the Prayer Book was an attempt to combine and simplify the services of the English church in a language understood by the people. Today, however, pastors frequently complain that the Prayer Book's stately, frosty prose is often more of a barrier to prayer than an invitation...
...bonds help keep this family of churches together. One is a superb order of worship: the Book of Common Prayer, used in different versions by different Anglican churches but always echoing the symmetry of ritual and the stately, pure English prose of the reformed liturgies composed by Thomas Cranmer for King Edward VI. Cranmer's 1549 Prayer Book has had almost as great an influence on English prose as the King James Bible, and its stately collects remain one of man's finest efforts to address his Creator reverently. Last Sunday's collect, for example...
...whom a sense of injustice, like Karl Marx's boils, is almost a physical affliction: Spartacus and Tom Paine, Abelard and John Brown, Saint-Just and Sam Houston, Cromwell and Bernard Shaw. There are also those who are pushed to their rebellion almost against their will, like Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, who recanted several times but then, cursing his right hand for signing the recantations, deliberately put the hand into the flames; or Luther, gradually moving from reform to open spiritual insurrection. There are those who flee into rebellion as if it were a second country, like Lenin or Garibaldi...
Many Protestants glory in this freedom and individualism-and many of them worry about it. One of the earliest worriers was the founder of Protestantism's Reformed tradition-John Calvin of Geneva. Wrote he to Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. chief architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer: "The churches are so divided that human fellowship is scarcely now of any repute ... So much does this concern me that if I could be of any service. I would not begrudge traversing ten seas for this purpose...