Percy points the way
I love Percy Dearmer - he is one of my absolute heroes.
Recently, I'm geekish enough to be rereading his "The story of the Prayer Book" and a sentence in a chapter on the first English prayer book really shone out. It's represents the vision of Anglicanism that I wholeheartedly say Amen to! He may be writing about 16th century liturgy and how it reflects the "English Character" (I wish!), but it's true for how the whole Church should be....
[The First Prayer Book] is indeed throughout an exemplar of what we proudly claim as one of the best elements in the English character: alike in ritual, that is, in the wording of services, and in ceremonial, it endeavours to avoid the extremes of bigots and fanatics, seeking to establish what is true and right without regard to prejudices, reactions, and the cruel generalizations so characteristic of religious controversy.
If ever we needed this man back, it's now!
Recently, I'm geekish enough to be rereading his "The story of the Prayer Book" and a sentence in a chapter on the first English prayer book really shone out. It's represents the vision of Anglicanism that I wholeheartedly say Amen to! He may be writing about 16th century liturgy and how it reflects the "English Character" (I wish!), but it's true for how the whole Church should be....
[The First Prayer Book] is indeed throughout an exemplar of what we proudly claim as one of the best elements in the English character: alike in ritual, that is, in the wording of services, and in ceremonial, it endeavours to avoid the extremes of bigots and fanatics, seeking to establish what is true and right without regard to prejudices, reactions, and the cruel generalizations so characteristic of religious controversy.
If ever we needed this man back, it's now!
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