Prayer Book Interleaves: Some Reflections on How the Book of Common Prayer Might Be Made More Influential in Our English-Speaking World

by William Palmer Ladd, Andrew McGowan (Foreword by)

Overview

William Palmer Ladd's Prayer Book Interleaves was the most influential book on liturgical reform in the U.S. Episcopal Church of the mid-twentieth century. At the centenary of his appointment as Dean of Berkeley Divinity School, and as a new period of liturgical renewal beckons, this new edition of Ladd's reflection offers wisdom, insight, and humor which remain relevant to the practice of liturgy and to its renewal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781725240667
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	10/16/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	198
Sales rank:	322,227
File size:	23 MB
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About the Author

William Palmer Ladd (1870-1941), was born in Lancaster, New Hampshire. He received his BA from Dartmouth in 1891 and his BD from the General Theological Seminary in 1897. He also studied at the University of Paris, Oxford University, and the University of Leipzig.
Andrew McGowan was Warden and Joan Munro Professor of Theology at Trinity College, Melbourne, during the time these essays were written, serving also on the Doctrine Commission of the Anglican Church of Australia and as a Canon of St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne. Since 2014, he has been Dean of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and McFaddin Professor of Anglican Studies at Yale Divinity School. He is the author of books including Ascetic Eucharists (1999) and Ancient Christian Worship (2014); and is the editor of the Journal of Anglican Studies.