Day By Day:The Rhythm of the Bible in the Book of Common Prayer
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Overview
This insightful text by lectionary and psalter of the Book of Common Prayer, Benjamin Sargent, examines the beauty and benefit of the church calendar as expressed in the collects. Throughout this volume Sargent’s explorations open up the richness biblical heritage offered by the calendar structure.
Top Highlights
“the principle lex orandi, lex credendi (the word of prayer is the word of belief).” (Page 7)
“Prayer Book Calendar, Collects, Lectionary and Psalter” (Page 8)
“the exclusive use of biblical and apocryphal texts and the aim to read the whole of the Canon each year” (Page 35)
“But Scripture speaks most powerfully when it is allowed to set the agenda, when reading attempts not to discover something easily and personally applicable, but when it attempts to hear the historically different, and perhaps strange, voice of the text.” (Page 30)
“Good Friday and Easter are celebrated within the same Calendar as lives of Christians from much later, such Christians of the past have their status elevated at the expense of the saving events of the Gospel.” (Page 15)
Benjamin Sargent is assistant curate in the Parish of Warblington with Emsworth in Hampshire and a research fellow at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford. His publications include Latimer Study 75, As It Is Written: Interpreting the Bible with Boldness. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles on biblical interpretation published in Churchman, Evangelical Quarterly and the Heythrop Journal.