Sacred places make sacred worship.
“The expanded Book V is a marvelous resource for any Anglican seeking to understand the meaning and practice of the Book of Common Prayer, as well as any historian investigating what typical English church practices looked like in the Elizabethan era. Many of the particular issues debated continue to be points of hot contention between Anglicans and Presbyterians today, or indeed between more liturgically-minded and anti-liturgical wings within both communions. Readers may be surprised for instance to find that on issues such as the recitation of creeds or set prayers, or the celebration of the church calendar, the terms of the debate have moved little from Hooker’s day—although many of his arguments seem, at least to us, so compelling that you might think they would have settled the discussion long since. None, perhaps, remains more important in Reformational Protestant circles than how to order our public worship, and how to mediate between the competing claims of a liturgical piety on the one hand and a sermon-centric piety on the other.” – From the Editor’s Introduction

A House for the Word: A Treatise on Public Worship from Hooker's Laws

Richard Hooker

Sacred places make sacred worship.
“The expanded Book V is a marvelous resource for any Anglican seeking to understand the meaning and practice of the Book of Common Prayer, as well as any historian investigating what typical English church practices looked like in the Elizabethan era. Many of the particular issues debated continue to be points of hot contention between Anglicans and Presbyterians today, or indeed between more liturgically-minded and anti-liturgical wings within both communions. Readers may be surprised for instance to find that on issues such as the recitation of creeds or set prayers, or the celebration of the church calendar, the terms of the debate have moved little from Hooker’s day—although many of his arguments seem, at least to us, so compelling that you might think they would have settled the discussion long since. None, perhaps, remains more important in Reformational Protestant circles than how to order our public worship, and how to mediate between the competing claims of a liturgical piety on the one hand and a sermon-centric piety on the other.” – From the Editor’s Introduction