Sentences with phrase «century prayer book»

The professor, who teaches at Sweden's Lund University, went straight to the authorities when he became suspicious about the provenance of a 16th - century prayer book he had purchased online.

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The prayers of the Church which have been used through the centuries, such as the English Book of Common Prayer, contain many moods but center in the adoration and praise which lie at the heart of worship.

Officially, Episcopalians and Lutherans have moved into the post-Vatican II era — although many Episcopal congregations still cling to the 1928 prayer book (largely confined to 16th century form), and the Lutheran Book of Worship has alternatives for those who want to be reassured that nothing has changed since the time of Lutbook (largely confined to 16th century form), and the Lutheran Book of Worship has alternatives for those who want to be reassured that nothing has changed since the time of LutBook of Worship has alternatives for those who want to be reassured that nothing has changed since the time of Luther.

Even as late as the 16th century, the future Edward VI of England received confirmation a few days after birth; soon thereafter, the first prayer book of his reign mandated knowledge of the catechism as requisite for confirmation.

In 1951 a University of Kiel professor named Theodor Wilhelm published the prayer in a book of his own under the pseudonym Friedrich Oetinger, which launched a German tradition of attributing it to the 18th - century Swabian Pietist F. C. Oetinger; Catholic - artifact versions of the prayer attributed it to St. Francis of Assisi; Hallmark cashed in on the prayer; and it was immortalized on thousands of plaques featuring Albrecht Dürer's praying hands.

The beautiful opening of the Third Eucharistic Prayer of the Church of England's Alternative Service Book (1980) draws its inspiration from the Eucharistic prayer found in the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus of Rome (c.l70 — t ~ 236), which is thought to represent a tradition of the early third cePrayer of the Church of England's Alternative Service Book (1980) draws its inspiration from the Eucharistic prayer found in the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus of Rome (c.l70 — t ~ 236), which is thought to represent a tradition of the early third ceprayer found in the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus of Rome (c.l70 — t ~ 236), which is thought to represent a tradition of the early third century.

Thomas Cranmer, the sixteenth - century English divine, translated many ancient Latin prayers for the new English Prayer Book of 1549.

The Book of Common Prayer, written in unforgettable English and with melodious cadence has, until the last quarter of the twentieth century, been the hallmark of English Christianity and of the Anglican Communion.

The Ministry of Absolution has always been provided for in the English Prayer Book, but though not infrequently practiced in the seventeenth century it became almost obsolete in the eighteenth, as shown by the disappearance of definite references to it in the American Prayer Book of 1789.

The Book of Common Prayer's description of marriage as «a common life» was written centuries ago.

From miniature illuminated prayer books in seventeenth century Europe to objects crafted from precious jade, lacquer, wood or porcelain in the Chinese Ming and Qing dynasties, small suggests special.

Drawing on a tradition of printed prayer books and literary texts that stretches back over centuries, she has woven streams of paper cut from a woodblock - printed book into five separate three - dimensional scrolls.

She is currently finishing a second book, written with co-author W. David Todd of the Smithsonian Institution: a study of a Renaissance automaton in the Smithsonian collection and the legend behind it, entitled «A Machine, a Ghost, and a Prayer: The Story of a Sixteenth - Century Mechanical Monk.»

Titled «The Book of Telling A Prayer for Our Century,» Thomas's prose from 1995 reads in part: «I find that I am unsure of my step, once firm ground lies wasted, it gives way and I am falling.

The Philip Slein Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of some of those artists, including Alison Hall, whose Book of Beginnings is a small black diptych on panel about the size of a book; and Louis Cameron, whose digitally manipulated photos of clouds evoke the 14th - century Christian mysticism of The Cloud of Unknowing, a guidebook on contemplative praBook of Beginnings is a small black diptych on panel about the size of a book; and Louis Cameron, whose digitally manipulated photos of clouds evoke the 14th - century Christian mysticism of The Cloud of Unknowing, a guidebook on contemplative prabook; and Louis Cameron, whose digitally manipulated photos of clouds evoke the 14th - century Christian mysticism of The Cloud of Unknowing, a guidebook on contemplative prayer.