Parson's Handbook : Containing Practical Directions for Parsons and Others as to the Management of the Parish Church and Its Services According to the Anglican Use, As Set Forth in the Book of Common Prayer

Dearmer, Percy

ISBN 10: 1610977610 / ISBN 13: 9781610977616

Published by Wipf & Stock Pub, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Parson's Handbook : Containing Practical Directions for Parsons and Others as to the Management of the Parish Church and Its Services According to the Anglican Use, As Set Forth in the Book of Common Prayer
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1610977610
• ISBN 13: 9781610977616
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Parson's Handbook, first published in 1899, is Dearmer's brotherly advice to fellow churchmen about the correct way to conduct proper and fitting English worship, concerned with general principles of ritual and ceremonial, but the emphasis is squarely on the side of art and beauty in worship. He was the author of books and pamphlets on church art and history and editor of the hymnbook Songs of Praise in 1931. The Parson's Handbook ran into many editions and he devised The English Hymnal to which composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst contributed. In The Parson's Handbook, Dearmer states in the introduction that his goal is to help in "remedying the lamentable confusion, lawlessness, and vulgarity which are conspicuous in the Church at this time". What follows is an exhaustive delineation, sparing no detail, of the young priest's ideas on how liturgy can be conducted in a proper Catholic and English manner.

About the Author

Percy Dearmer (1867 - 1936) was an English priest and liturgist best known as the author of The Parson's Handbook.