Origins and History of the Prayer Book: From Sarum to Settlement, Part 1

The Book of Common Prayer was forged in a thousand years of English Christianity, monastic life, royal politics, and liturgical conflict. Fr. James Sweeney, SSC traces the surprising path from the Sarum Rite to the 1549 prayer book, showing why Anglican worship looks the way it does and how the English Reformation diverged from the continent in ways that still shape the church today. Discover how history, politics, and theology collided to shape modern Anglicanism.