Divine Visitation: The 1662 Prayer Book’s Theology of Sickness and Plague
When it began to be clear that COVID-19 was a global phenomenon, clerics were scrambling for liturgical ways to address the crisis. But it turned out that most twentieth-century Anglican Prayers Books have few, if any, prayers for times of plague or great sickness. This was not always the case. In l...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2022
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Journal of Anglican studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 198-215 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality FA Theology KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KDE Anglican Church |
| Further subjects: | B
liturgical revision
B Book of Common Prayer B Covid-19 B Anglican liturgy B Pastoral Theology B the Visitation of the Sick B Anglican theology |
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| Summary: | When it began to be clear that COVID-19 was a global phenomenon, clerics were scrambling for liturgical ways to address the crisis. But it turned out that most twentieth-century Anglican Prayers Books have few, if any, prayers for times of plague or great sickness. This was not always the case. In light of the current pandemic and the pastoral challenges it has introduced, this article explores the theology of sickness and plague in the Church of England’s 1662 Book of Common Prayer in light of the devastating history of plagues and sicknesses in England, both before and after the sixteenth-century reformations. This exploration makes use of the lens of ‘divine visitation’ as an ordering principle, one of the distinctive phrases that the Prayer Book uses repeatedly to speak of bodily illness. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5278 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Anglican studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S1740355321000255 |