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...leadership of the church, after years of hard work, introduces a new prayer book. Resistance among the laity is vociferous and in some cases violent. Is this the Episcopal Church with its modern-language prayer book in 1979? No. This first happened when Cranmer introduced his then modern-language prayer book in 1549. All the reasons given against the 1979 book-"it's poor English, it's not traditional, it's poor theology"-were first used in opposition to Cranmer's book. Plus ça change, plus c'est la méme chose...
...that the Church of England forsook the Latin liturgy and began worshiping in the king's English. By the church's good fortune, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer edited the original Book of Common Prayer with such felicity that it has stood for centuries as a literary masterpiece. Its familiar phrases strike to the Anglican mind and heart and indeed can stir anyone who loves God or great language: "Almighty and most merciful Father . . . We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things...
...Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of Anglicanism, the language of the venerable book remained remarkably close to that of the 16th century, even after its most recent revision in 1928. But Episcopalians now are on the verge of a substantial break with Cranmer. Next month, after three years of trial use, a modernized prayer book will come up for final approval at the church's General Convention...
Saccharin users were also heartened when Morris Cranmer, director of the FDA's National Center for Toxicological Research, criticized the Delaney clause, the law that requires the FDA to prohibit the use of any food additive shown to induce cancer in laboratory animals. In a 700-page report to FDA Head Donald Kennedy, Cranmer argued that the law failed to take into account that the potential risk of cancer from saccharin might be outweighed by possible benefits to diabetics or the obese...
...Cranmer called for a better assessment of the risks and suggested that more research be done. Otherwise, he said, because of "current toxicological ignorance, we might act needlessly in an effort to eliminate a given carcinogen which, if the methods of quantifying risk existed, could prove less significant than a lifetime exposure from a package of cigarettes...